Court Allows U.S. to Join Cole Prosecution
A Yemeni court granted the U.S. government the right to join the prosecution team in the trial of six men accused of plotting the attack on the American destroyer Cole.
The Oct. 12, 2000, attack, blamed on Al Qaeda, killed 17 American sailors when two suicide bombers rammed an explosives-laden boat into the Cole as it refueled in the southern Yemen port of Aden.
The court approved a prosecution request to allow the legal attache at the U.S. Embassy in Sana, the capital, to join its team and represent the families of the sailors killed in the attack.
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