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Ex-terror suspects seeking freedom They want to get jobs, lawyers say February 16, 2005 BY DAVID ASHENFELTER FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER Two former terrorism suspects asked a federal judge in Detroit this week to give them their freedom, but the judge declined. Although they're no longer terrorism suspects, U.S. District Judge Gerald Rosen said Karim Koubriti and Ahmed Hannan could be flight risks and agreed with a federal prosecutor to keep them on a short leash until they can be tried on new charges of attempted insurance fraud. Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Straus said the government plans to deport the Moroccans if they are convicted at a trial in June. Koubriti, 26, is confined in a halfway house hooked to a handheld box that communicates with a global positioning satellite, tracking him wherever he goes. . He wants to be unhooked from the box so he can get a job. "I simply cannot let him roam the streets going from store to store looking for a job," Rosen told Koubriti's lawyer, Deputy Federal Defender James Gerometta of Detroit, at a court hearing Tuesday. Gerometta said the men have been stigmatized because they were tried in 2003 on terrorism charges. But Rosen agreed to allow Koubriti to search for a job on a standard electronic tether and in the company of a Federal Defender Office staffer. Hannan, 36, who is in jail, wants to be released on a standard electronic tether so he can look for work. Rosen rejected his request Monday. Rosen told attorney James Thomas of Detroit that he would ask the U.S. Marshals Service to consider moving Hannan to a federal prison in Milan after Thomas told the judge that a Wayne County Jail inmate knocked out four of Hannan's front teeth last week.Rosen said he also would consider moving Hannan to a halfway house on a GPS tether if Thomas can find a halfway house that would take him. Hannan spent four months in a halfway house last year, but was returned to jail because he was unruly. Koubriti was convicted of conspiring to provide material support for terrorism, at the nation's first post-9/11 terrorism trial in Detroit in 2003. Hannan was convicted of document fraud. The government asked Rosen to dismiss the charges after discovering that the lead prosecutor withheld documents from the defendants. They were indicted in December on charges of trying to defraud an insurance company on a car accident claim. They have been in custody for 40 months, far longer than any time they would serve if convicted, their lawyers said. Contact DAVID ASHENFELTER at 313-223-4490 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> DonorsChoose. A simple way to provide underprivileged children resources often lacking in public schools. Fund a student project in NYC/NC today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/EHLuJD/.WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
