Judge in Cole attack case orders prosecutors to share CIA secret prison details with defense
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A military judge is ordering prosecutors to turn over never-revealed details about the time a Guantanamo Bay detainee spent in secret CIA prisons after being captured in connection with the 2000 attack on the USS Cole. Seventeen U.S. sailors were killed in the bombing in a Yemini port.
Army Col. James Pohl's order, released Tuesday, says prosecutors must hand over the information to defense lawyers for Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri (ahbd al-ruh-HEEM' al-nah-SHU'-ree), but not to the public.
The judge says the government must provide a chronology of the secret CIA sites where al-Nashiri stayed and details about his treatment and confinement before he was taken to Guantanamo in September 2006.
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Prosecutors can appeal the ruling. They opposed the request, arguing that the information is not relevant to the case.