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USS Cole Suspect Claims Gitmo Torture

HeadlineApr 02, 2007

A Saudi prisoner at Guantanamo Bay has said he was routinely tortured into making a false confession to the bombing of the USS Cole. Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri says he also falsely claimed Osama bin Laden had a nuclear bomb, in order to stop the abuse from his U.S. interrogators. Al-Nashiri is one of the Pentagon’s main suspects in the attack.

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