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<p>A Qatar native held on charges of lying to the FBI in an investigation into the September 11 attacks was designated yesterday as an "enemy combatant" and could be tried before a military tribunal for helping al Qaeda operatives relocate in the United States. Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri, 37, in Justice Department custody since late 2001, was given the new designation by President Bush and handed over to the Defense Department.</p>

Matt Hale is also Jose Padilla. When will the "American" media apologize to Matt Hale (and Jose Padilla)? Every branch of the major media has convicted Matt Hale of a crime which he did not commit. The FBI informant at Hale's trial is a former mental patient whose testimony should not have had any credibility, and if the judiciary and media had been doing their job the case would never have been brought to trial. That is what judges and real journalists are for, not to help the police agencies imprison people for their political views. The FBI has never...

White supremacist groups have been on the decline in the Midwest lately, with key leaders jailed or stepping down and membership in disarray. But experts warn the hate movement could actually become more violent under those circumstances, as angry "lone wolf" extremists take matters into their own hands. It's a theory that might be tested soon in Chicago, as authorities probe last week's execution-style shootings of the husband and mother of federal Judge Joan H. Lefkow. Lefkow came home on Monday to find the bodies of her husband, Michael F. Lefkow, 64, and her mother, Donna G. Humphrey, 89, in...

Investigating a report about two suspicious looking men who were seen in the neighborhood near Judge Joan Lefkow's home hours before the murders of two of the judge's family members were discovered, police released a composite sketch of the men Wednesday night. Investigators were also looking into the source of several phone calls Lefkow and her family received Sunday night that may have come from a correctional facility. NBC 5 learned more about the private ordeal that Lefkow is going through from some people who are close to her, and the Chicago Sun-Times published the first interview with the grieving...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Authorities found two bodies at the home of a federal judge Monday night, and Chicago police and the FBI were investigating. The bodies were found at the home of U.S. District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow, but the judge was uninjured, police spokesman Patrick Camden said. He declined to elaborate. FBI agents were assisting police but would provide no details.