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Bush's treatment of accused terrorists troubles many legal experts, who say the Administration appears to be making up the rules as it goes along. American Taliban John Walker Lindh and foreign suspects Zacarias Moussaoui and Richard Reid all face federal trial, but Yasser Hamdi, the Louisiana-born Saudi captured last December in Afghanistan, is being held in Norfolk as an enemy combatant. Now Padilla is being held as a combatant as well--though the Administration says it has no plans to try him before a tribunal. "The real test case is Padilla," says Duke professor Scott Silliman, who specializes...
...stumbled out of the flooded, filth-filled hole that served as the last Taliban fortification in Mazar-i-Sharif last December, Yasser Hamdi heard a British journalist ask, "Where are you from?" Hamdi, who appeared upbeat even after six days in that besieged sewer, chirped up immediately. "Baton Rouge," he said. Just hearing a response surprised Neil Syson, a reporter for the Sun, a London tabloid. But the actual words floored him. "Louisiana?" someone asked incredulously. "Do you know it?" replied Hamdi...
There doesn't seem to be much doubt now that Yasser Esam Hamdi was born on the bayou. Or that Hamdi and alleged Taliban turncoat John Walker Lindh were among the holdouts in the Qala-i-Jangi prison riot that day, raising the possibility that the two knew each other. But they were separated immediately after capture because Lindh needed medical attention and Hamdi didn't appear to be injured. In February Hamdi was shipped off to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with other suspected al-Qaeda men. "From the very beginning, there was a possibility in everyone's mind that...
Beyond that there is nothing but doubt, since no one in Baton Rouge has yet claimed to recall the Hamdis, who returned to Saudi Arabia in the early '80s, according to officials. His father might have worked in the petrochemical industry, which forms the industrial base of Baton Rouge, or at Louisiana State University, where hundreds of Saudis have taken part in a petroleum-engineering program over the years. But oil companies have not been able to find a record of Hamdi's father or mother, nor has Louisiana State...
...semidarkness in his cavernous Cairo office, the only light a small desk lamp and neon bulbs overhead. "This is a very hard year for our country's power system," he explains. "I have told the Egyptian people clearly -- we do not have enough." At the Aswan High Dam, Supervisor Hamdi el Shaffei observes, "Water is our fuel. Not a drop is wasted." Under his feet, huge turbines hum as thousands of gallons of precious Nile River water gush past each second, heading north on the last leg of a 4,150-mile journey through Africa...