Al-Marri shares the same list of contacts as Mohammed Atef, a US citizen who worked out of Barack Obama's family's country of Kenya, and who was involved in the 1998 US embassy bombings that occured there and in Tanzania. Some of the perps in that bombing plot, such as Wadih el Hage, were involved with IARA [another agency with offices in Chicago] and also ran and worked for a Kenyan terror charity called "Help Africa People." El Hage [and another individual, the woman Siddiqui, that was part of al Qaeda's post 911 follow-on ops as was al Marri] was also involved in the gem trade. That leads to Liberia and Sierra Leone, and the battles over the gemstone mines there, which brings to mind all the liberal hysterics about Bush taking down Charles Taylor, the best buddy of Illinois' favorite loudmouth Jessie Jackson.
There are a lot of politicians who received goodies from these terror charities so there is probably a strong desire in Washington and particularly in "Crook county" Illiois to handle the al Marri matter creatively...in such a way that not too much of what and who he was actually involved with gets exposed.
al Marri wasn’t in the credit card theft business for personal gain like some sort of common criminal. He was in it on the instructions of his commanders, at the request of a declared foreign enemy of the US, and his activities benefitted them. [al Qaeda declared war on the US before the 1998 US embassy bombings,and al Marri trained in their camps and indeed, was sworn to them, even went so far as to request to become a martyr for them against US targets, though his bosses had other things in mind for him.]
In other words, al Marri is not a criminal, he’s part of an invasion force of enemy combatants.
>>He trained for two years under the Islamic Jihad’s Egyptian chemical engineer Midhat Mursi al-Sayid ‘Umar [aka Abu Khabab al-Masri aka Abu Khabab]... the guy who was featured in an al Qaeda video gassing dogs.<<
That’s enough to convince me that he is almost certainly a terrorist sympathizer and probably a terrorist.
But I don’t see anything that should would justify taking his right to a fair trial away.