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Long, Twisting Case Involving Al-Qaeda Operative Takes New Turn

By Conaway and Strickler

In the weeks following the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, President George W. Bush and authorities at the Pentagon developed new legal procedures to deal with captured individuals associated with the international Al-Qaeda terrorist network. One of the most interesting test cases for these new rules involved a man named Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, a native of the country of Qatar, who came to the United States on September 10, 2001, along with his family, ostensibly to study at Bradley University. Soon after the attacks, on suspicion from investigative government agencies, al-Marri was arrested and later indicted as an enemy combatant. He was sentenced to military detention for the federal crime of terrorism and for his role as a sleeper agent for the terrorist network...continue to full post

Full post as published by Georgia Criminal Defense Blog on January 05, 2009 (boomark / email).