Posted on 02/26/2009 7:55:02 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
In a stark departure from Bush administration policy, the Justice Department is preparing to charge the only alleged enemy combatant held on U.S. soil in the federal court system, ABC News has learned.
U.S. officials said Ali Saleh Kahlah al Marri, a Qatari national whom FBI agents arrested in Illinois in December 2001, could face charges for allegedly providing material support to terrorists.
One day before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, al Marri and his family legally entered the United States so he could begin a master's degree program at Bradley University in Peoria, Ill. He had received a bachelor's degree from the same school in 1991.
The U.S. government alleged that he repeatedly attempted to contact an al Qaeda leader suspected of financing the Sept. 11 attacks as part of his alleged involvement in a suspected second-wave attack.
According to an individual briefed on the matter, prosecutors are currently presenting evidence to a federal grand jury in the central district of Illinois.
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But since he’s been held since ‘01, the arrest will be ruled unconstitutional.
This is what we get for graciously letting all of these pukes into our country, occupying grad school slots at publicly funded schools that American kids are denied. Obama will probably apologize to him and throw a party in his honor when he gets off.
He was never Mirandized. He will be let go based solely on this.
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