MIAMI, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Defense lawyers in the USS Cole bombing case asked the judge to delay the next hearing to provide time for experts to examine the accused suspect.
Navy Lt. Cmdr. Steven Reyes, a lawyer for Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, 47, said the Pentagon was in the process of issuing security clearances for two approved case experts, a psychologist and an internist specializing in torture cases, neither of whom will have time to properly examine the accused before the hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, scheduled for Oct. 23-25, The Miami Herald reported.