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...Over the next month, the government tried to make a court case against Padilla. But on June 9, he was abruptly classified as an "enemy combatant" - someone who engaged in battle against the U.S. - and thrown into the brig at a South Carolina naval base. The following day in Moscow, Ashcroft announced Padilla's capture as "a significant step forward in the war on terrorism...
...Padilla's path from the brig to a Miami courtroom has been riddled with fits and starts. On June 11 in New York (where he had first been held), the ACLU filed a petition for Padilla's release, arguing that as an American citizen captured on U.S. soil, he had to be let go or charged and tried in a civilian court. In December 2003, a federal appeals court in New York agreed, but then the government dodged a bullet: the Supreme Court ruled that Padilla's petition should have been filed in South Carolina, not New York...
...Cook ultimately rejected both arguments, but not before allowing defense lawyers to take testimony from guards at the brig. The government denies that any torture took place, and the guards didn't give up much detail, but prosecutors fought intensely to block such testimony or let any information seep into the public record about what might have happened during Padilla's detention. And if it ever existed, the evidence of a dirty bomb and attacks on apartment buildings is not expected to appear in the trial - possibly because it was obtained through improper interrogation of witnesses like Zubaydah (who says...
...self-doubt by the time he headed for America. At 27, he was ready to put the lessons of hard experience to good use and had little respect for authority he deemed inept or unearned. His open contempt for those he called "our ignorant transporters" landed Smith in the brig, or some such warren of restraint, where he spent one of the most historic voyages in history as the first inmate of record in English America...
...they would carry out an operation while all the people were still in the town." Reinado told journalists he would fight to the death. "If you bring all the forces and point guns at me," he warned, "I will shoot you." Gusmao and the commander of the ISF, Australian Brig. Mal Rerden, called on Reinado to turn himself in. "The purpose of this operation is not to kill anyone," said Gusmao . "It is to force them to hand in all the weapons they have and to surrender...