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Inspire magazine is getting into detention camp, says US military prosecutor at pretrial hearing for suspected USS Cole terrorist
A copy of a magazine linked to al-Qaida was delivered to the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, a US military prosecutor has revealed. Navy commander Andrea Lockhart, prosecuting suspected al-Qaida bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, said at a pre-trial hearing on Wednesday that "there was material getting in like Inspire magazine that should not have been getting in". Inspire magazine bills itself as the publication of Yemeni-based group al-Qaida in the Arabian peninsula and published an article titled 'Make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom'. The US considers it a propaganda and recruitment vehicle for the group, and killed its editor in a drone strike in Yemen in September.
The camp commander, Rear Admiral David Woods, issued orders last month tightening the screening of mail sent by lawyers to their clients at the camp that holds 171 captives. He testified on Tuesday that the new rules were necessary to prevent contraband from entering the camp, but he gave no specifics.
A Pentagon spokesman could not immediately provide details concerning the copy that ended up in Guantánamo.
Al-Nashiri, a Saudi citizen, is accused of orchestrating the October 2000 attack that killed 17 US sailors and injured dozens more aboard the USS Cole. Suicide bombers rammed a boat full of explosives into the side of the American warship while it refuelled in the Yemeni port of Aden, blowing a huge hole in its side.
He could be executed if he is convicted of charges that include murder, attempted murder, conspiring with al-Qaida and attacking civilians. Prosecutors hope to start his trial by March 2013 but the defence has said it would not be ready before March 2015, in part because it hopes to receive about 570,000 pages of evidence, some of which must be translated and some of which requires special handling because it is secret.
Nashiri was captured in Dubai in 2002 and held in secret CIA custody until his transfer to Guantánamo in 2006.
