Al-Marri was sent to the U.S. on Sept. 10, 2001, by KSM to carry out cyanide bomb attacks.
Mr al-Marri was appointed by the UN to head efforts to recover money from leaders overthrown in Arab uprisings.
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The case against al-Marri escalated when investigators further examined his computer and interrogated al Qaeda detainees, the government claims.
All these charges have been denied by Qatar's Attorney-General, Ali bin Fetais al-Marri.
Recently, we prosecuted and received a guilty plea from a detainee, al-Marri, in federal court after years of legal confusion.
Obama last month ordered a prompt and thorough review of the "factual and legal basis" for the continued detention of al-Marri.
President Bush ordered al-Marri confined in military custody, and his Justice Department had been filing the appeals opposing his legal claims.
President Obama last month ordered a prompt and thorough review of the "factual and legal basis" for the continued detention of al-Marri.
Ali Saleh al-Marri, an al-Qaida operative from Qatar, was arrested while attending an American university and accused of being a sleeper agent.
According to the article, the court concluded that because al-Qaeda wasn't a state, Marri had to be treated as a civilian criminal defendant.
Al-Marri arrived in the United States the day before the 2001 terrorist attacks, as a computer science graduate student at Bradley University in Peoria.
Al-Marri had been accused of being an al Qaeda "sleeper agent, " but until the indictment had never been charged with a criminal or terrorism-related offense.
This surprise decision came about during the case of Al-Marri v.
Although al-Marri was never charged with terrorism-related offenses, Bush in June 2003 issued a formal declaration naming him an "enemy combatant" and transferring him to military custody.
Instead, the majority ruled that al-Marri, a national of Qatar here on a student visa, must either be given a full-blown trial in the civilian-justice system or be released.
The Justice Department's recent plea agreement with Ali Saleh al-Marri should be of grave concern to those who believe the Obama administration will vigorously prosecute terrorists in the federal court system.
Mr. Obama has also ordered that all military commission trials be stayed and that the case of Ali Saleh al-Marri, the only al Qaeda operative now held on U.S. soil, be reviewed.
Since his initial arrest on credit card fraud charges in December 2001, al-Marri -- a legal resident of the United States -- had remained in "virtual isolation in the brig, " his attorneys said.
Nationalist politician Changez Marri is running for a seat in the federal parliament, while his brother, Harbiyar Marri, leads the Baluch Liberation Army, a powerful armed group with around 3, 000 fighters, according to officials.
Since his initial arrest on credit card fraud charges in December 2001, al-Marri -- a legal resident of the United States -- has remained in "virtual isolation in the brig, " his attorneys said.
President Bush thus designated al-Marri as an unlawful enemy combatant in the war on terror, and the government proffered this and other information to a federal judge a presentation al-Marri did not rebut.
Al-Marri's lawyer expressed some disappointment with the decision.
They said his cell, at the U.S. Consolidated Navy Brig in South Carolina, is only 9 feet by 6 feet, and until recently, al-Marri was allowed little contact with the outside world, including his family.
The Pentagon asserts al-Marri had trained at a terror camp in Afghanistan, met al Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and "volunteered for a martyr mission, " according to a government filing with the Supreme Court.
Al Marri, who is a filmmaker himself and has worked with the Abu Dhabi Film Festival as a content producer, says UAE filmmakers should also be looking towards creating movies on an international level rather than solely targeting a local audience.
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The decision by the Obama administration to criminally charge al-Marri after he spent seven years in custody -- more than five years in virtual isolation in a Navy brig in North Charleston, South Carolina -- is the latest twist in the ongoing legal saga of the only remaining "enemy combatant" held in the United States.
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