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Article: Bush designates Qatari man as al-Qaida enemy combatant
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- AP Worldstream
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- June 23, 2003
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Dateline: WASHINGTON
A man from Qatar alleged to have been paving the way for al-Qaida
operatives to settle in the United States was designated Monday as
an enemy combatant by the Bush administration, government officials
said.
Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, 37, has been in custody since 2001, first
as a material witness and later on charges of lying to the FBI and
on a charge of credit card fraud. This new designation puts him under
the control of the Defense Department, without the rights afforded
defendants in the civilian U.S. criminal justice system.
Al Marri is the third person designated an enemy combatant since the
Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and the only ...