The Obama Administration has suddenly halted the prosecution of USS Cole bombing suspect Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who allegedly coordinated the attack that killed 17 American sailors.

In a filing this week in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the Justice Department said that “no charges are either pending or contemplated with respect to al-Nashiri in the near future.”

This leaves two ongoing trials at Guantanamo Bay, both launched before Obama came into office. A team of military prosecutors are prepared to go to trial against the high-profile terror suspects but the Obama Administration simply won’t let them.

“It’s politics at this point,” said one military official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss policy. He said he thinks the administration does not want to proceed against a high-value detainee without some prospect of civilian trials for other major figures at Guantanamo Bay.

The administration is concerned with what global leftists would think if the United States were to charge war criminals as war criminals rather than ordinary, domestic suspects. The leftists are concerned that terrorists don’t have enough of a  chance to walk free if they’re tried in a military setting instead of a courtroom.

This terrorist in particular killed 17 American sevicemen, and the United Nations crowd is concerned that he may not be able to walk free. But that’s not the worst part. The worst part is that the Obama Administration cares what the UN crowd thinks enough to change the course of justice.

So the prosecution has come to a halt while we try to figure out how to try high-profile terror suspects as if they simply forgot to pay their traffic tickets. When will the al-Nashiri case move forward? The administration won’t say when, or if it will ever happen.