AP: Administration Freed Terror Suspect

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

WASHINGTON - Nabil al-Marabh was No. 27 on the FBI's list of terror suspects after Sept. 11. He trained in Afghanistan's militant camps, sent money to a roommate convicted in a foiled plot to bomb a hotel and boasted to an informant about plans to blow up a fuel truck inside a New York tunnel, FBI documents allege. The Bush administration set him free - to Syria - even though prosecutors had sought to bring criminal cases against him and judges openly expressed concerns about possible terrorist ties.

Al-Marabh served an eight-month jail sentence and was sent in January to his native Syria, which is regarded by the United States as a sponsor of terrorism. The quiet disposition of his case stands in stark contrast to the language FBI agents used to describe the man.

Al-Marabh "intended to martyr himself in an attack against the United States," an FBI agent wrote in a December 2002 report obtained by The Associated Press. A footnote in al-Marabh's deportation ruling last year added, "The FBI has been unable to rule out the possibility that al-Marabh has engaged in terrorist activity or will do so if he is not removed from the United States."



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Ain't that a kick in the head?

[mike_c]

1. I dunno-- I'd call it the presumption of innocence...

...until proven guilty. It's the reason YOU can't be sent to the gulag just because I say you're a terrorist.

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Sorry dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x598410

[Moderator]

3. Let's call them "duplicates", okay?

Anyway, I'm locking this thread.