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Article: Test of Bush's terror-fighting authority heads to higher court.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- January 31, 2007
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Byline: Warren Richey Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
The open-ended detention of an Arab student suspected of being an Al Qaeda sleeper agent is setting the stage for the next major showdown over the scope of President Bush's authority to fight terrorism on American soil.
Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri has been held in government custody for more than five years and has spent the last three and a half years in a South Carolina military prison under interrogation as a presidentially designated enemy combatant.
For 17 months of that time he was held incommunicado, with no ability to consult a lawyer, appear before a neutral judge to test ...