12 Jun 2007
Fourth Circuit Ruling, Soon to be Reversed
Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, Habeas corpus, Military Detention, The Law
Richmond’s 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the Bush Administration cannot do what Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1 and 2 ) did in time of war, that the Bush Administration cannot detain as a military prisoner one Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, an individual arrested in the United States, who had trained at Osama bin Laden’s terrorist training camp in Afghanistan, who met with Khalid Shaykh Muhammed, the mastermind of the September 11th attacks, in the Summer of 2001, and then entered the United States just before September 11th attacks to serve as an Al Qaeda sleeper agent.
The opinion was written by Judge Diana Motz and joined by Judge Roger Gregory, both Clinton appointees.