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June 21, 2003
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excerpted from today's
New York Times
:
Terrorism Task Force Detains an American Without
Charges
By TIMOTHY EGAN
PORTLAND, Ore., April 3 — For the last two weeks,
Maher Hawash, a 38-year-old
software engineer and American citizen who was
from the West Bank and grew up
in Kuwait, has been held in a federal prison
here, though he has not been
charged with a crime or brought before a judge.
Mr. Hawash, who is known as Mike, has yet to be
interrogated and is being
kept in solitary confinement, his supporters say.
Federal officials will not comment on Mr. Hawash,
though they have been
pressed by Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon,
and by a group of
supporters led by a former Intel vice president,
for basic information about
why he is being detained.
In a statement after his arrest, the F.B.I. said
he was being held as a
material witness in an "ongoing investigation" by
the Joint Terrorism Task
Force. Federal search warrants in the case are
sealed.
The case has drawn the attention of civil
liberties groups nationwide, who
say Mr. Hawash's case is an example of how the
Bush administration is holding
a handful of American citizens without offering
them normal legal protection.
Although at least two American citizens are being
held without normal legal
rights as "enemy combatants," Mr. Hawash has not
been categorized as such. As
a material witness, he is being held to compel
testimony. But supporters say
he has not been told anything about what the
government may want from him.
Civil liberties groups say material witness
statutes are being abused by the
Bush administration to hold people like Mr.
Hawash indefinitely. "The
government doesn't have and should not have the
power to arrest and detain
someone without charging them," said Lucas
Guttentag, director of the
American Civil Liberties Union's
Immigrants Rights Project. "If this kind of
thing is permitted, then any United States
citizen can be swept off the
street and locked up without being charged."
Attorney General John Ashcroft has defended the
tactic, saying it is "vital
to preventing, disrupting or delaying new
attacks."
Link to the full story:
http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=7597:134522
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Cordially invite you to
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Come and listen about
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Nuclear Weapon in Space
Speaker: Bruce Gagnon
Bruce Gagnon is the Coordinator of the
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He was the organizer of
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Please join hundreds and thousands of your fellow
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Work for Peace, Stop the War!
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