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Designation: "Enemy Combatant."

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Full article link.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/930278.asp?0cv=CB10

From article:
"ALI SALEH KAHLAH Al Marri, 37, has been in custody since 2001, first as a material witness and later on charges of lying to the FBI and on a charge of credit card fraud.
This new designation puts him under the control of the Defense Department, without the rights afforded defendants in the civilian U.S. criminal justice system."

My two cents so you don't have to read the article if you don't want to. The FBI says he was going to run a gas truck into airliners that were waiting to depart . Before he was going to do that, he was going to cut suspension cables on bridges in general and the Brooklyn Bridge in particular. He delivered supplies to airliners as a job and drove, I guess you call it a petrol tanker truck. He also trained in Afghanistan.

Now, I'd love to debate the validity and dangers of allowing this designation.


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