News Source: Voice of America
| 28 days ago
Accused al-Qaida sleeper agent Ali al-Marri has been sentenced to more than eight years in a civilian prison. The Qatar native was labeled an "enemy combatant and held for years in isolation at a military prison in South Carolina. Al-Marri's sentence...
News Source: Washington Post
| 29 days ago
District Judge Michael Mihm essentially gave Marri credit for spending more than six years on a U.S...Marri was held in isolation without criminal charges as one of only three enemy combatants on American soil. Over the course of the two-day...
News Source: Dawn
| 29 days ago
A US judge sentenced Al Qaeda sleeper agent Ali al-Marri to more than eight years in prison on Thursday, rejecting pleas from prosecutors for a much longer jail term. Judge Michael Mihm expressed fears Marri could reoffend but said a ‘just...
News Source: Chicago Tribune
| 29 days ago
A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a former Bradley University student and convicted al-Qaida sleeper agent to nearly 8 1/2 years in prison, asserting that he still poses a threat to the American people. But the judgment was seen as something of a...
News Source: Fox News
| 29 days ago
District Court Judge Michael Mihm decided to give credit for the 71 months al-Marri spent in a Navy brig, and time held as a material witness. In addition, Mihm credited him with 9 more months, to make up for the harsh treatment of al-Marri while...
News Source: Christian Science Monitor
| 29 days ago
But the federal judge took into account the almost six years he was held without charge as an enemy combatant in a military prison...Ali Saleh Al-Marri of Qatar and Saudi Arabia had faced up to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty in April to a...