On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, at 05:44 PM, Declan McCullagh wrote:
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 04:12:40PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
He was an illegal combatant because he did not actually enter a country we were not actually at war with, whose government was not actually the force behind the 9/11 attack.
Using the psychics employed by the CIA, America has deduced that he may have been _thinking_ about entering Afghanistan, even though he didn't.
You're forgetting the many anonymous tipsters, including his neighbors (at least one in the pay of the Feds, I recall) who reported on Hawash. One alleged he was wearing "eastern" garb and had let his beard grow after 9-11. Other evidence included one of the "Portland Six" having Hawash's telephone number written on a business card or something similar.
Don't forget the copy of the Koran they found when the ninjas raided his house. That alone justified the holding without charges, without bail, without access to a lawyer. Habeas Corpus never recovered from that creep Lincoln's attacks..it was good the fucker got offed. Gee, I also have a beard, and a copy of the Koran, and I lived in Hillsboro, Oregon. I hope the Fedz never learn that I have ricin and sarin formulas on my computer, sarin ingredients in my kitchen, that I know Steve McGeady from the Hackers Conference, and that I once worked with Jim Bell when we were both at that hotbed of terrorist plotting, Intel Corp. --Tim May "To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists." --John Ashcroft, U.S. Attorney General