Posted on 02/08/2006 10:16:42 AM PST by jmc1969
Shawqi Omar, 44, who once served in the Minnesota National Guard, has been held since late 2004 in U.S.-run military prisons as an enemy combatant. He has not been charged with a crime or been given access to a lawyer, said Jonathan Hafetz, a lawyer representing Omar's family in the United States.
Separately, Omar, Zarqawi and 11 others have been indicted by a Jordanian court on charges they plotted a chemical attack against Jordan's intelligence agency.
In March, Matthew Waxman, the Pentagon's deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, said a panel of three U.S. officers determined he was an enemy combatant and not entitled to prisoner-of-war status under the Geneva Convention. The description provided by Waxman and other officials matches Omar's biography as contained in the government's court papers.
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Non-citizens can serve in the Guard as long as they obtain citizenship within eight years of joining???
That rule needs to be changed !!!! Somebody dial 911
A very large percent of all Congressional Medal of Honor winners have been non-citizens.
I'm sure Coleen Rowley will tell us all we don't know.
Is he one of the ex-military men that the democrats are planning to run for Congress in 06?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1574438/posts
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We should let the Jordanians handle this guy since he was involved in a crime there. While I was there in 1975-1977 they hung a terrorist down at the center of Amman.
Note that it's an AP report... AP in Iraq openly sides with the insurgents to the point of participating in attacks.
In other words, Jihadi propaganda.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
this is actually one of my suggestions for allowing illegal immigrants to stay in our country, give 'em their time in basic, then ship them over as cannon fodder or general labour. since so many seem to want to come over for construction jobs, send them to help rebuild iraq and afganistan.
I would say charge him with Treason... but we don't do that anymore. Therefore I predict that at least 1 of the following will occur...
1) He'll escape.
2) He will be brought to Jordan, tried there, convicted, jailed, and escape.
3) He'll be brought here, at which point the ACLU will rally behind him and feed us a sob story about how he's just a 'misguided' young man who 'lost his way', a la Taliban Johhny. Then he'll be tried and released on time servered. Then he'll sue the US gov't and win a 12 million dollar settlement for civil rights violations. Then he'll win the Democratic ticket for president.
I second that.
What, exactly, is a "very large percent?"
Well, I'm all for that but he needs to get in line behind Kennedy, Kerry, Durban, et al first.
I say we give him a fair trial and then give him a fair firing squad - but only if it is on one weekend a month or two weeks in the summer...
How could Benedict Arnold have won the Medal of Honor, when it didn't exist until the Civil War?
Maybe the moron meant "Metal" of Honor ????
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