U.S. Moves Enemy Combatant to S.C. Brig

HANAHAN, S.C. -- A U.S.-born man captured in Afghanistan has joined two other men deemed enemy combatants at the Navy brig at the Charleston Naval Weapons Station.

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He joins Jose Padilla and Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri at the Charleston brig. Padilla is a former Chicago gang member who allegedly had plotted to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb," while Al-Marri has been accused of being an al-Qaida sleeper agent.

A federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., refused last month to rehear Hamdi's claims that he is being unconstitutionally held by the military.

A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had rejected the claims in January, ruling that the government has wide latitude to detain people caught fighting against the United States on foreign soil during wartime.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-enemy-combatants,0,6378171.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

If we harm a detainee (i.e. internationally condemned sham tribunal with no lawyers, no appeals, no questioning of others accused, leading to of course a death penalty) Al qaeda said they would strike us.

Bet on it.

This is the beginning of the tribunal nightmare. Ready yourself for a stomach churning assasination of all that is American.

And what is sick is that Bush will put it on thinking it will help his popularity by killing some folks. Always worked in Texas.

Beginnning of an even sadder chapter in the Bush Regime.

Regime change now. Impeach Bush.

than the fact of US citizens seized and held against their will without due process, on the orders of those charged with the duty of protecting and defending the Constitution.

A thousand airplanes flown into a thousand buildings is a hangnail compared to the attack on America the day that Bush said, live, on international TV, "no need for evidence, we know he's guilty."