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Ärende: Bush the Dictator
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I expect shit like this from Nazi Germany or Stalin's NKVD.
But Bush using our (har har) "Justice" department to do this, goes 
beyond the pale.

Oh, and how do we know that this detainee is an "enemy combatant?"

Simple.
"Bush said so!"

US: Immigrants may be held indefinitely By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press 
Writer
Mon Nov 13, 9:53 PM ET

Immigrants arrested in the United States may be held indefinitely on 
suspicion of terrorism and may not challenge their imprisonment in 
civilian courts, the Bush administration said Monday, opening a new 
legal front in the fight over the rights of detainees.

In court documents filed with the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 
Richmond, Va., the Justice Department said a new anti-terrorism law 
being used to hold detainees in Guantanamo Bay also applies to 
foreigners captured and held in the United States.

Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri, a citizen of Qatar, was arrested in 2001 
while studying in the United States. He has been labeled an "enemy 
combatant," a designation that, under a law signed last month, strips 
foreigners of the right to challenge their detention in federal courts.

That law is being used to argue the Guantanamo Bay cases, but Al-Marri 
represents the first detainee inside the United States to come under the 
new law. Aliens normally have the right to contest their imprisonment, 
such as when they are arrested on immigration violations or for other 
crimes.

"It's pretty stunning that any alien living in the United States can be 
denied this right," said Jonathan Hafetz, an attorney for Al-Marri. "It 
means any non-citizen, and there are millions of them, can be whisked 
off at night and be put in detention."

The new law says that enemy combatants will be tried before military 
commissions, not a civilian judge or jury, and establishes different 
rules of evidence in the cases. It also prohibits detainees from 
challenging their detention in civilian court.

In a separate court filing in Washington on Monday, the Justice 
Department defended that law as constitutional and necessary.

Government attorneys said foreign fighters arrested as part of an 
overseas military action have no constitutional rights and are being 
afforded more legal rights than ever.

In its short filing in the Al-Marri case, however, the Justice 
Department doesn't mention that Al-Marri is being held at a military 
prison in South Carolina, a fact that his attorneys say affords him the 
same rights as anyone else being held in the United States.

The Justice Department noted only that the new law applies to all enemy 
combatants "regardless of the location of the detention."

The Bush administration maintains that al-Marri is an al-Qaida sleeper 
agent. The Defense Department ordered a review of Al-Marri's status as 
an enemy combatant be conducted if, as requested, the case is thrown out 
of court.

Copypyright © 2006 The Associated Press.

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