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  • Informer Is Cited as the Key to Unlocking a Terrorist Cell

    08/29/2002 11:17:57 PM PDT · by kattracks · 6 replies · 354+ views
    New York Times ^ | 8/29/02 | DANNY HAKIM
    ETROIT, Aug. 29 — For nearly a year, the three foreigners picked up at an apartment here a week after the Sept. 11 attacks seemed like just another group of Arab men caught up in the government dragnet. They languished in prison while facing charges that seemed minor; federal agents had actually been looking for the previous occupant when they raided the apartment.But at least one thing appears to have separated the Detroit trio from hundreds of other Arabs swept up by the government in the last year: a cooperative witness. A fourth Arab man who once lived with...
  • Judge orders Ashcroft to explain his actions

    09/04/2003 7:25:05 AM PDT · by areafiftyone · 16 replies · 209+ views
    DETROIT (AP) — Attorney General John Ashcroft has two weeks to explain why he should not be required to appear in court to tell why he violated a judge's gag order by commenting during this year's terrorism trial. U.S. District Judge Gerald Rosen issued the 14-day directive on Friday in response to a motion filed by lawyers for three men who were convicted in June after the trial, the Detroit Free Press reported in a Thursday story. The lawyers said Ashcroft's comments jeopardized their clients' fair trial rights. A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment Wednesday on Rosen's 14-day directive....