本·芬利 华盛顿 — 2000 年致命的“基地”组织对美军舰的袭击案嫌疑组织者的律师要求军事法庭在审判前先确定其行为能力，理由是他在中情局拘留期间遭受酷刑导致创伤性脑损伤。阿卜杜勒-拉希姆-纳什里因在也门海岸 USS 科尔号驱逐舰旁边的装满炸药的快艇爆炸事件中导致 17 名美军水手死亡而面临审判，可能被判处死刑。审判定于本月开始，地点是在古巴的美国海军基地，他目前被关押在那里，审理过程可能持续长达五周。
BEN FINLEY WASHINGTON — A lawyer for the suspected organizer of a deadly al-Qaida attack on a U.S. warship in the year 2000 wants a military court to determine his competence before trial, arguing that he has a traumatic brain injury “arising from torture in CIA custody.”A trial is scheduled to start this month for Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri in the killing of 17 U.S. sailors, who died when an explosives-laden skiff blew up alongside the USS Cole destroyer off the coast of Yemen. He faces a possible death penalty. The proceedings at a U.S. Navy base in Cuba, where he is detained, could last up to five weeks.
纳什里于 2002 年被捕，此后在中情局的秘密拘留设施中遭受了多年水刑、殴打以及被关在箱子里的待遇。2018 年公开的解密文件生动描述了他被剥光衣服、反复撞向墙壁，并“呻吟、颤抖，反复祈求上帝帮助他”的情形。纳什里的律师艾利森·费尔伯·米勒周四向华盛顿特区联邦法院提出申请，要求推迟审判程序，直至军事委员会有足够时间评估他的精神状态。
Captured in 2002, Nashiri underwent waterboarding, beatings, and confinement in a crate for years in CIA custody at clandestine detention facilities. Declassified documents released in 2018 graphically described how he was stripped naked, repeatedly slammed against walls and left “moaning, shaking and asking God to help him repeatedly.”Nashiri’s attorney, Allison Ferber Miller, asked a federal court in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to delay the proceedings until the military commission has had enough time to determine his mental capacity.
为辩护方进行检查的精神病学家在八月对纳什里的评估结论是：“他不具备行为能力。”米勒写道。
A psychiatrist for the defense who examined Nashiri in August concluded that he is “not competent,” Miller wrote.
“他诊断出创伤性脑损伤（TBI），该损伤源于他在中情局拘留期间遭受的酷刑，伴有严重的神经认知障碍、复杂性创伤后应激障碍（PTSD）以及重度抑郁症。”米勒写道。“他得出结论：请愿人无法理解审判程序或协助其辩护律师。”米勒写道，纳什里并未要求联邦法官评估他的行为能力，而是希望推迟审判，以便军事委员会能够“有意义地”进行评估。
“He diagnosed a traumatic brain injury (TBI) arising from torture in CIA custody, a severe neurocognitive disorder, complex post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and major depression,” Miller wrote. “He concluded that Petitioner cannot understand the proceedings or assist his counsel.”Miller wrote that Nashiri is not asking the federal judge to determine his competence but to delay the trial until the military commission has had “a meaningful opportunity” to do so.
军事法官曾下令进行心智能力评估，“但没有留出有意义的听证会时间”来审议纳希里是否适合出庭受审，米勒写道，并补充说，军事法官已三次拒绝推迟诉讼程序，直至解决纳希里的心智能力问题。
The military judge had ordered a competency evaluation, “but left no time for a meaningful hearing” on whether al-Nashiri is fit for trial, Miller wrote, adding that the military judge has declined three times to stay the proceedings until the question of Nashiri’s competence was resolved.
米勒写道，案件律师原定周六前往关塔那摩湾。军事法官留下了周一早上举行心智能力听证会的可能性，那天也是审判原定开始的日子。
Lawyers in the case were scheduled to travel to Guantanamo Bay on Saturday, Miller wrote. The military judge left open the possibility for a competency hearing on Monday morning, the same day the trial was scheduled to begin.
据关塔那摩湾军事委员会办公室发言人罗纳德·弗莱斯维格称，审判此后已重新安排，将于一周后的10月26日开始。
The trial has since been rescheduled to start a week later on Oct. 26, according to Ronald Flesvig, the spokesman for the Office of Military Commissions at Guantanamo Bay.
关塔那摩湾军事委员会首席检察官办公室未立即回复一封请求置评的电子邮件。
The Office of the Chief Prosecutor for military commissions at Guantanamo Bay did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment.
此前，军事委员会的诉讼程序因延误以及关于纳希里在酷刑辅助审讯中所获证据的可采性等法律挑战而陷入困境，还涉及他审判和拘留的其他情况。关于纳希里案件的处理问题，如同其他被指控策划和协助基地组织9/11袭击美国的关塔那摩湾被拘留者的案件一样，已引发宪法辩论和其他问题。
Proceedings before the military commission were previously mired in delays and in legal challenges over admissibility of evidence from the torture-aided interrogations of Nashiri and over other circumstances of his trial and detention. Questions over the handling of Nashiri’s case, like those of other Guantanamo Bay detainees accused of planning and aiding al-Qaida’s 9/11 attacks on the United States, have led to constitutional debates and other problems .