US military prosecutors have filed charges against the alleged mastermind of the 2000 attack on the USS Cole warship that left 17 sailors dead.
Saudi-born Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who is being held at Guantanamo Bay, faces charges including murder and terrorism.
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He told a hearing at the US base in Cuba last year that he confessed to the attack because he had been tortured.
Earlier this year the CIA director, Michael Hayden, acknowledged that the agency had subjected three suspects, including Mr Nashiri, to waterboarding - an interrogation technique which the CIA banned in 2006 and which human-rights groups consider as torture.
Death sentence
According to US intelligence, Mr Nashiri was the leader of the al-Qaeda network's operations in the Gulf.
The charges announced on Monday also include involvement in other attacks, including one on a French supertanker in 2002.
Brig Gen Thomas W Hartmann, legal adviser to the US military tribunal system set up at Guantanamo Bay, told reporters Mr Nashiri was charged with "organising and directing those attacks".
In 2004, a Yemeni court tried al-Nashiri in absentia over USS Cole attack and sentenced him to death.
(BBC)
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