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SECURITY & DEFENSE • UNITED STATES

Jury selection begins in first Guantánamo death-penalty case

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Jury selection has begun in the first death-penalty case at Guantánamo Bay, involving a Saudi man charged in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 American sailors, The New York Times reports.

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The proceedings concern a case involving the deaths of U.S. sailors and the use of the death penalty in military commissions. The article does not describe a direct change to current U.S. security conditions.