Posted on 09/27/2004 7:02:41 PM PDT by neverdem
U.S. Citizen Held for Three Years As an Enemy Combatant
The Associated Press
NORFOLK, Va. -- A U.S. citizen captured in Afghanistan and held without charges since late 2001 as an enemy combatant is scheduled to be released Tuesday and flown to Saudi Arabia, where he grew up, his lawyer said.
Yaser Esam Hamdi, whose case led to a Supreme Court decision limiting the president's powers to indefinitely hold wartime combatants, will not be charged with any crime under an agreement with federal officials made public Monday.
The agreement requires Hamdi to give up his American citizenship, renounce terrorism and not sue the U.S. government over his captivity. Justice Department officials declined to comment beyond the agreement.
"I believe he's just hours away from being put on a plane and being sent home," said his attorney, Frank Dunham Jr. "The ball goes through the hoop when the ball goes through the hoop."
Dunham said Hamdi had been set to leave Sunday on a military plane but the flight was canceled in part because of Hurricane Jeanne.
Justice Department officials said they did not have immediate information on when Hamdi would be released, but Dunham said the flight was rescheduled for Tuesday.
Hamdi, who was born in Louisiana in 1980 to Saudi parents, was captured on a battlefield in Afghanistan in late 2001 during the fight against the Taliban regime.
He contends he never fought against the United States and that he had been trying to get out of Afghanistan when he was captured.
Under the four-page agreement filed late Friday in U.S. District Court in Norfolk, Hamdi agreed to notify Saudi officials if he becomes aware of "any planned or executed acts of terrorism."
In return, the Justice Department agreed not to ask the Saudi government to detain Hamdi any...
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Hope they implanted a chip in the bastard.
An American born Arab, to Saudi parents... Who was caught in Afghanistan?
What was he doing there? Looking for a well beaten woman to force into a marriage with him?
I hope they implanted that locator device in him.
I hope there's an AP photo of a Charlie Daniels-type kicking him in the backside as he boards the plane out of the US!
In other words, "We will let you go only if you agree not to sue the crap out of us."
I hope there's an AP photo of a Charlie Daniels-type kicking him in the backside as he boards the plane out of the US!
ping
The agreement requires Hamdi to give up his American citizenship........
He was born here. Can he renounce his US citizenship in favor of Saudi Arabia? Where his parents are from?
7th paragraph
The first stated that he grew up in S.A.
hopefully he will suffer some unfortunate accident while in SA.
The agreement requires Hamdi to give up his American citizenship, renounce terrorism, and take a bullet to the base of his brain....ooops! Wrong war.
Ummmm...renounce terrorism? You mean like Yassir Arafat? That's an effective deterrent....ugh.
I tend to agree - implant a chip in the SOB. Keep physical tabs on him. At the opportune time, drop a big-un on him and whoever he is associating with.
Enemy combatant released from Quantamo killed in Afghanistan.
Wait, that couldn't ever happen. /sarcasm
I couldn't find that title, "Enemy combatant released from Quantamo killed in Afghanistan." posted on FR.
I couldn't find that title, "Enemy combatant released from Quantamo killed in Afghanistan." posted on FR.
Yeah, that was my point, referring to the other prisoner. You may be able to find the new headline in the future, when this guy gets back to his old business. It's too bad these guys get out because we know they aren't in there for stealing candy bars.
Problem is, we can only suspect that they were terrorists, still are terrorists, and will continue to be terrorists.
For some, of the several hundred captured, some will not be terrorists.
But which ones?
(Give him "traceable" dialysis parts, and let him return to Pakistan. Then trace the dialysis machine.)
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