Attorneys Challenge U.S. on Terror Case (Prove it or free him)

[Khephra]

SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- Attorneys defending an American accused of participating in an al-Qaida plot to set off a "dirty bomb" have issued a challenge to federal prosecutors: prove it or free him.

Jose Padilla's attorneys on Wednesday asked U.S. District Judge Henry Floyd to hear their writ of habeas corpus, a petition that allows a civilian judge to consider their case. Padilla was not present.

"If everything you say about Jose Padilla is true, prove it," said Denyse Williams, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union in South Carolina, which has filed a brief in support of Padilla's attorneys. "Everybody says the war on terror could last a lifetime. If they can do it to him, they can do it to others."

Padilla was arrested at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport in 2002 after returning from Pakistan. The federal government has said he received weapons and explosives training from members of al-Qaida.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-enemy-combatant,0,7766002.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines

[PunkPop]

1. Damn ACLU

Terrorist sympathizers all of them! </sarcasm>

Stories like this renew my faith in this country.

[Tweed]

3. hear hear

Go ACLU, thanks for protecting all of us!

[pinniped]

2. Ya, if these knuckleheads got the goods let's see it.

I think they got shit on him.

These are the same .gov idiots who were stalling around with the 9/11 trial of Moussaoui trial. I think they got nothing.

[gardenista]

4. kick for Khephra

[gardenista]

5. kick for Khephra

[NYC]

6. Khephra.

[koneko]

7. Kick!

:kick:

[miss_kitty]

8. kick for Khephra

[struggle4progress]

9. kick

[TankLV]

10. I am only now beginning to see the enormity of our loss of Khephra

He WAS "breaking news".

He will be missed more than even I could know now.

Why do all the good die young while cheney and bunkerboy and all the coulters and delays of this world seem to thrive?

[Miami Liberal]

11. kick

[Misunderestimator]

12. kick

[Scout]

13. kick!