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By Michael Webster: Investigative journalist July 17, 2008 11:00 AM PDT

The New York Times reports: A federal court handed down two judgments, one promoting President Bush's indefinite detention of "enemy combatants," and another said granting "enemy combatants" the opportunity to challenge his detention before a court.

The court ruled effectively as President Bush has the same right to indefinitely detain a civilian on American soil as it does an enemy soldier on a battlefield.

Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, one of three U.S. citizens arrested and held without due process. Abdullah Al Mujahir, who changed his name from Jose Padilla after his conversion to Islam in prison and John Lindh Walker, the American who joined the Taliban, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison, Ali said one of the combatants "enemy" to be held in the continental United States is in military custody in Charleston, South Carolina. He was arrested in Peoria, Illinois December 12, 2001 on charges of credit card fraud and lying to federal agents before being sent to Charleston in 2003. A 5-4 majority the Court of Appeals U.S. Fourth Circuit said that a sworn statement by an intelligence official as a witness to the government in a prior proceeding was "inadequate."

The official, Jeffrey N. Rapp said in a sworn affidavit that al-Marri was an agent of al Qaeda bed, with the objective to the United States was to "commit mass murder and disrupt the banking system." So far, he n 'There has been no concrete evidence to support this assertion. This statement was all that was needed to arrest and detain an American, without the basic rights of America offered by the Constitution. Bail was refused, right habeas corpus have been rejected and then under the current state of American business and nobody else can be arrested and detained in prison indefinitely without due process and detained incommunicado indefinitely. The current administration and several Members of Congress have said in effect that the rule of habeas corpus does not apply to certain people, including some citizens. Click on Google or restoration of habeas corpus

Due process was once a fundamental right of America. The vision of the founding fathers of the rights of all citizens in the new United States. A constitutional right granted to all Americans, a right which has been the cornerstone of American justice that the world looked up and tried hard to imitate. With these rights to distinguish between us and stood head and shoulders on America likes of Hitler and tyrannical governments around the world, traditionally, provided that people without these basic human and civil rights

The other decision reverses an earlier decision effectively by a panel of three judges in the same court that ordered that al-Marri has been charged with a crime or released.

Ministry of Justice spokesman Brian Roehrkasse, saying that al-Marri had "already received all the process he is due", said the decision to recognize the authority of the President to "capture and detain [al- Qaeda agents] who, like the 9 / 11 hijackers, come to this country to commit or facilitate acts of war against American civilians. "

"This decision," countered Jonathan L. Hafetz, counsel for al-Marri, means the president can pick anyone in the country-citizen or a resident, and locking them up for years without the most fundamental guarantees in the Constitution The right to a criminal trial. "This will deprive all Americans of basic due process rights, including habeas Co.