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...much has gone according to plan for the 20th hijacker over the past year. First, on September 11, Zacarias Moussaoui missed his flight into the glorious afterlife imagined by al-Qaeda's suicide terrorists. Now a U.S. judge won't even accept his guilty plea...
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...
...important memo about the FBI's obstructing measures that could have helped disrupt the Sept. 11 attacks [THE WHISTLE-BLOWER, June 3]. Her letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller told of the bureaucratic culture that stifled and frustrated the Minneapolis field office's investigation of alleged terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui. Though perhaps troubling to many Americans, Rowley's letter resonates with those of us who have worked in the federal bureaucracy. We understand that the present system rewards the naysayers and consummate bureaucrats within the career civil service who say no to good ideas and out-of-the-box thinking. Rowley...
...This utter ambiguity distinguishes Padilla's circumstances from those of John Walker Lindh and Zacarias Moussaoui. Walker Lindh, also a U.S. citizen, was captured while fighting alongside Taliban forces in Afghanistan, in an obvious "war zone." Since his detention last fall, he has been transferred over from the military court system to the federal system; a step that will lend a new degree of transparency to Lindh's legal proceedings. Moussaoui, the suspected "20th hijacker," will also be tried in federal court, although he is not a U.S. citizen...
...promise--yet again--to mend its ways. Minneapolis, Minn., agent Coleen Rowley's blistering 13-page memo, first published by TIME, detailed some warnings that had been ignored and the opportunities that were missed even when the FBI agents working on the strange case of suspected terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui implored headquarters to act before something really bad happened...