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*bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem **In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful *=== News Update === *Federal court: Bush can indefinitely detain civilians* ***RAW STORY <http://rawstory.com/> * Published: Tuesday July 15, 2008 A federal court has issued two rulings, the *New York Times* reports<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/washington/16combatant.html?em&ex=1216267200&en=d3c315e2b68a7317&ei=5087%0A>: One favoring President Bush's indefinite detentions of "enemy combatants," and another granting one of said "enemy combatants" the opportunity to challenge his detention in court. The court effectively ruled that President Bush has the same right to indefinitely detain a civilian on American soil as he does an enemy soldier on a battlefield. Ali al-Marri, the only "enemy combatant" to be held in the continental United States, is in military custody in Charleston, South Carolina. He was arrested in Peoria, Illinois on December 12, 2001 on charges of credit card fraud and lying to federal agents before being sent to Charleston in 2003. A 5-4 majority of the United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, said that a sworn statement from an intelligence official as the government's sole testimony in an earlier proceeding was "inadequate." The official, Jeffrey N. Rapp, said that al-Marri was an al-Qaeda sleeper agent whose objective in the United States was to "commit mass murder and disrupt the banking system." Read the rest of this entry ยป<http://musliminsuffer.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/federal-court-bush-can-indefinitely-detain-civilians/#more-2658> === -muslim voice- ______________________________________________ *BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW*
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