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| US to Release American 'Enemy Combatant' Held in Iraq |
| 2018-06-09 |
| [AnNahar] The US Justice Department announced Wednesday that an American alleged Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group combatant held in Iraq for over eight months would be released, potentially defusing a troubling detainee test case for the Trump administration. After being blocked by a Washington court from handing over the dual US-Saudi citizen, identified only as "John Doe" to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , the Justice Department said in a filing that it had decided to release the man in Syria, where he was originally taken prisoner. But his legal representative, the American Civil Liberties Union, immediately said it would fight the release into war-torn Syria, which it called a "death warrant" for the man. The release decision was an unexpected reversal after the government spent the months since the man was captured in September defending its power to hold him indefinitely, on grounds that he had been a "enemy combatant" in Syria, fighting for the Islamic State group (IS). That made him the first American alleged member of IS caught on the battlefield, and the first known foreign member of a jihadist group taken into custody by the Trump administration. Yet "John Doe" was never charged, and he said he was not involved with IS when he was detained in Syria. The case raised questions about whether the Trump administration would introduce his case into the US justice system, hand him over to Saudi Arabia, or, as Trump had in the past threatened, send him to the Guantanamo military prison in Cuba. Allowed to represent him, the ACLU successfully fought the decision two months ago to transfer him to another country -- understood to be Saudi Arabia -- without his agreement. The court agreed with the ACLU's argument that that would violate the US constitutional rights of the man, who was born in the United States to a Saudi family. In the filing Wednesday, the Justice Department said the US military had offered "John Doe" the choice of being released in an unnamed town in Syria or outside a Syrian camp for internally displaced persons. But the man "did not identify a preference between the two locations and would not agree to the release" as proposed to him, the filing said. "Accordingly, out of an abundance of caution, the department is filing this notice of its intent to release petitioner (Doe) in the town specified," it said. The release would take place after a 72 hour waiting period ordered by the court. In a statement, ACLU lawyer Jonathan Hafetz called the move "a disgraceful way to treat an American citizen." "The government has effectively admitted that it has no reason to continue detaining our client and that he does not pose a threat. But, instead of offering a safe release, they want to dump an American citizen onto the side of the road in a war-torn country without any assurances of protection and no identification." "What the government is offering our client is no release -- it's a death warrant." |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #8 Operation Grief process. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-06-09 12:14 |
| #7 I belive you can give them a summary trial in the field, and then if found guilty, execute them. But I'm not a lawyer either... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2018-06-09 11:42 |
| #6 As I recall, under the Geneva conventions, they can be given a court martial, and then executed. Not a lawyer, but I think you can just shoot them straight away and be done with it. Or maybe that's just in Texas. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2018-06-09 11:15 |
| #5 Keep his passport too. He won't be needing it. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-06-09 09:26 |
| #4 Illegal combatant? As I recall, under the Geneva conventions, they can be given a court martial, and then executed. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2018-06-09 09:14 |
| #3 Seems the ACLU doesn't have a problem with "catch and release" with illegals here, so what's the real game? /rhet |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-06-09 08:03 |
| #2 Sounds like his lawyer should be released with him; just to make sure he is safe. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2018-06-09 07:33 |
| #1 "What the government is offering our client is no release -- it's a death warrant. If you can't keep him, it only seems right to put him back where you got him. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2018-06-09 00:46 |
