Charges dropped in final Gitmo case

The Pentagon's senior judge overseeing terror trials at Guantanamo Bay dropped charges on Thursday against an Al-Qaida suspect in the 2000 USS Cole bombing, upholding President Barack Obama's order to freeze military tribunals there.

The charges against suspected Al-Qaida bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri marked the last active Guantanamo war crimes case.

Seventeen US sailors died on Oct 12, 2000, when Al-Qaida suicide bombers steered an explosives-laden boat into the Cole, a guided-missile destroyer, as it sat in a Yemen port.