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Article: Detainee Compromises Likely; Marri Case Suggests That Interrogations Will Hinder Trials
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- The Washington Post
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- May 4, 2009
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Nearly six years ago, President George W. Bush declared Ali Saleh
Kahlah al-Marri an enemy combatant and had him swept out of federal
court and into a U.S. Navy brig so he could be interrogated without
the legal protections afforded by the criminal justice system. Bush
said the Qatari national, arrested as a material witness in Illinois
in December 2001, possessed critical intelligence that "would aid
U.S. efforts to prevent attacks by al-Qaeda on the United States."
In an agreement Marri entered Thursday in Peoria, Ill., he
pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to al-
Qaeda and admitted to being a sleeper agent. Under the guise of
being a student, Marri came to the ...