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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The only medal awarded by the United States, before the Civil War, was created by Congress in 1780 and presented to three members of the New York Militia. Private John Paulding, Private David Williams, and Private Isaac Van Wart were the three men who captured Major John Andre. Major Andre was an intelligence officer, representing the British forces in America, and a co-conspiritor of Major General Benedict Arnold.
Benedict Arnold did not win a damn thing !!! Especially the medal of honor
Go back to school...you wealth of misinformation !~!
Note that he was previously in the group labeled "Moderate muSlums living in America" and that his "religion has been hi-jacked by extremists". Oops.
Judge Urbina was appointed to the United States District Court in July 1994. He received a B.A. in 1967 from Georgetown University and graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1970. He served as staff attorney for the D.C. Public Defender Service from 1970 to 1972 and then entered private practice. From 1974 to 1981 he taught at Howard University Law School and directed the University’s Criminal Justice Program. He was appointed Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia in April 1981, and served as Presiding Judge of the Court’s Family Division from 1985 to 1988.
ping.
I am looking for the official stat now, around 20% of CMOH awardees were foreign born and many of them were non-citizen at the time of the action that earned them the CMOH.
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
7/5/99
"The eight federal judges appointed by President Clinton to the U.S. District Court in Washington meet privately every month in closed-door sessions that other jurists believe are improper and call into question the court's impartiality. "I cannot imagine any legitimate reason for them to meet together once a month, even socially," said one veteran courthouse official familiar with the sessions. "It's not only in bad taste, it certainly has the appearance of impropriety. It's hard to imagine any rationale for these meetings.
Another court official said they "reek with impropriety." Concern among courthouse officials about the meetings, which are described in e-mail addressed monthly to each of the eight judges, comes at a time that Chief U.S. District Judge Norma Holloway Johnson is being publicly criticized for selectively assigning criminal cases against friends and associates of Mr. Clinton's to judges the president has appointed. None of the eight Clinton-appointed judges, all of whom were named to the bench between 1994 to 1998, would comment on the meetings or their content.
"I have no comment to make on these matters," said U.S. District Judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr., the only one of the eight who personally answered a telephone call. A spokeswoman for Judge Richard W. Roberts returned a call but said only that the judge "declined comment."
Four judges appointed by other presidents, both Republican and Democrat, said the meetings have been taking place for some time, although specific topics are not known. They question the propriety of the sessions and lament what they described as the "loss of collegiality" when the judges fail to come together as a group "which the others do often."
"The Clinton appointees have confirmed that they meet together, and we know they do, but where they go and what they discuss I just don't know," said one judge. "But a very important part of what we do here is our collegiality. We all come with political viewpoints but we try to leave politics behind. Unfortunately, the Clinton appointees have gone off on their own."
The nature of the isolation, another judge said, was punctuated by an e-mail message sent to all of the judges inviting them to a birthday party for U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina, a 1994 Clinton appointee. The message asked the judges to guess Judge Urbina's age for a prize but excluded members of the "Magnificent Seven" a name the first seven Clinton appointees had used to describe their group before Judge Roberts' 1998 appointment.
There are 23 judges at the federal courthouse, including the eight named by Mr. Clinton. Five were appointed by President Carter and five by President Reagan. Four were named by President Johnson and one was picked by President Nixon. None of the other judges hold separate meetings, courthouse sources said.
Questions of impropriety at the courthouse have drawn the attention of the Senate Judiciary Committee, whose chairman, Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, Utah Republican, is considering whether to begin an investigation or call for hearings to resolve the issue."
Not a single US citizen fought in the Revolutionary War. They were technically British subjects until they had achieved victory.
It happened after Algore invented the time machine.
Not a bad idea. I say we change the law, so that instead of deporting them we force them to join the military, women and men, and put them into special illegal alien labor battalions, make the enlistment term 8 years, if they pass the citizenship test before discharge they can stay, if not, ship them back home.
http://www.arcent.army.mil/news_letters/2004/january/14jan%20desert%20voice.pdf
On page 11 of this pdf of the Jan 14, 2004 issue of "Desert Voice", it makes reference to the 20% CMOH winners being immigrants. Still looking for the official stat of non-citizen in particular, but may take some time as I may have to compile the actual listing by hand from
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/moh1.htm
That's why I'm not above examining facts closely. The 20% stat had in the past been used as a "non-citizen" stat, but is clearly a "non-U.S. born" stat.
The fact that there are likely 50+, if not many more, non-citizens that have won the CMOH is significant. The percent of winners is a large percentage, especially when this is generally brought up when people are upset that non-citizens can be members of the U.S. Military at all.
Too often some people make the mistake of being against illegal immigration means you must distrust and dislike all immigrants. That is entirely unfair. Many immigrants love America and gladly work, pay taxes and serve in our military. The CMOH winners are just very visible examples of the love for our country that many immigrants have.
I will try and find the actual raw number of those who were not citizens at the time of the action that earned them the CMOH.
But she probably won't show this guy who planned a chemical terrorist attack, in a Nazi uniform as her web site did to MN Congressman John Kline who has 25 years of honorable service in the United States Marine Corps.
yeah. that was a real classy touch on her part. what a jackass. they should post her pic next to Sally Jessie Raphael for comparison on who has the largest spectacles.
I think your reply was meant for someone else ???
I would not trust an Illegal Alien with a Potato Gun.
No just posting about the Judge that stayed his transfer..sorry.
I didn't say to give them weapons. Labor battalion was the key phrase!
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