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| U.S. Agrees to Release Terror Suspect |
| 2004-09-23 |
| A U.S. citizen held since late 2001 as an enemy combatant will be sent back to Saudi Arabia under an agreement between the Justice Department and his lawyers. Yaser Esam Hamdi must renounce his American citizenship and agree never to travel to certain countries under the agreement announced Wednesday. But Hamdi, whose case led to a Supreme Court decision limiting the president's powers to indefinitely hold wartime combatants, will not face criminal charges. Rest at link No more battlefield prisoners. Implement battlefield Sharia. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #3 My understanding is that Hamdi is a US Citizen by accident of location, born in New Orleans, LA and departed for Saudi before he was even one year old. That may legally make him a citizen on paper, but otherwise he's just another AQ fighter. We could have charged and found him guilty on a technicality (taking up arms against the USA), or push him off on the Saudi's who will probably kill him after them torture him a bit. Hey Hamdi...no more three squares, HBO and a clean room with soft bed, hot/cold running water and A/C. Ta Ta! |
| Posted by: RN 2004-09-23 10:38:21 AM |
| #2 Why is it that whenever we "release" someone like Hamdi, the press and civil libertarians immediately call out "GOTHA". Did it ever occur to them that we may have turned this guy and we have set him loose in Soddyland for possible infiltration? |
| Posted by: Jack is Back 2004-09-23 10:21:34 AM |
| #1 Hopefully someone is keeping his fingerprints and DNA on file, against the time when he shows up on our radar again. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2004-09-23 8:57:06 AM |