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Article: 'I Want to Go Home'; Detainee Tony Oulai Awaits End of 4-Month Legal Limbo
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 26, 2002
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Tony Oulai sat down in a small cubicle and picked up a telephone.
Through the plexiglass wall separating him from his visitors, his
chocolate complexion was stark against the pale cinder-block walls.
Across the back of his forest-green jumpsuit, worn block letters
spelled out "PRISONER."
"I don't know how to handle this whole thing," Oulai said into the
phone, his deep voice inflected with the French of his native Ivory
Coast. "I am not a saint, but I am not a criminal."
The federal government has had Oulai in custody since Sept. 14,
the day flight manuals and a stun gun were found in his luggage at a
Florida airport and he was arrested as a suspected terrorist. The
Alexandria Detention ...