The American Courts as Allies of the Terrorists Herbert London |

"Ali al-Marri was trained in an al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan in the 1990s, met and was counseled by Osama bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, volunteered for a “martyr mission,” and came to the United States as a “sleeper agent” to hack into banks and disrupt the nation’s financial system. By any measure, he is a terrorist who should be restrained. But not so fast.

The Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, rejected the Bush administration’s desire for “extraordinary powers” to control international terrorism by ordering the release of al Marri. According to Judge Diana Gribbon Motz “in the United States, the military cannot seize and imprison civilians--let alone imprison them indefinitely.” "

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