GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba (MCT) — The accused architect of al-Qaida’s USS Cole bombing skipped arguments in his war crimes case Thursday, a day after both the public and the accused were excluded from a hearing that discussed CIA intelligence.

All defense counsel Richard Kammen would say was that Saudi national Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri “voluntarily chose not to attend.” So guards did not move him from his cell at the prison several miles away to the court at Camp Justice.