06 April 2003

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God Bless our Troops.
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At least the Israelis have kangaroo courts for people they claim are terrorists (3 witnesses you know won't testify and the rest in camera). In the US we seem to have decided that it's just fine to hold someone forever without any proof they did anything. Maybe this guy is a "material witness" but - if so - you'd think they'd talk to him.

Of course, he did give money to a Moslem charity which the government believes to have terrorist ties. This places him square in the path of one of the Justice Department's new tactics. "Part of the appeal for prosecutors is that they do not have to prove that the defendants actually supported terrorist attacks, only that they helped a group tied to terrorism." Funny, I don't remember this statute being used to prosecute people who donated to Sinn Fein.

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