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Article: Judge credits time served in sentencing al-Qaeda aide; Qatari spent 6 years on Navy brig, gets half of maximum penalty
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- The Washington Post
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- October 30, 2009
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In a decision that could carry implications for the masterminds
of the Sept. 11 attacks, a judge on Thursday sentenced an al-Qaeda
sleeper agent with ties to the group's senior leaders to eight years
and four months in prison.
The sentence sliced away nearly half of the 15-year maximum
available penalty against Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, who entered the
country as a graduate student on Sept. 10, 2001, under instructions
from al-Qaeda operations chief Khalid Sheik Mohammed.
U.S. District Judge Michael Mihm essentially gave Marri credit
for spending more than six years on a U.S. Navy brig in Charleston,
S.C. Marri was held in isolation without criminal charges as one of
only three enemy ...