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Article: Bush: Enemy combatant could face tribunal; Peoria resident supposedly helped al-Qaida operatives
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- June 24, 2003
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush designated a Qatari man in U.S.
custody as an enemy combatant Monday for an alleged role in helping
al-Qaida operatives settle in the United States so they could mount
new terror attacks.
The designation means that Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, 37, could
eventually be tried by a military tribunal without most of the legal
rights afforded defendants in the U.S. criminal justice system, such
as representation by an attorney.
Al-Marri, who lived in Peoria, Ill., has been in U.S. custody
since December 2001, held first as a material witness and later
charged with lying to the FBI and credit card fraud. Pentagon
officials said al-Marri was transferred from federal ...