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October 30, 2009

Marri Sentenced to 8-Year Term
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A former so-called “enemy combatant” who was jailed in the US for over
six years without charge has been sentenced to over eight years in
prison. Ali al-Marri pleaded guilty to a single conspiracy charge
earlier this year after the Obama charged him to avoid a Supreme Court
hearing challenging his indefinite imprisonment. As part of his guilty
plea, al-Marri admitted to attending militant training camps and
traveling to the US under the direction of al-Qaeda leader Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed. In sentencing Marri to about half the maximum fifteen-year
term, US District Judge Michael Mihm appeared to give him credit for his
indefinite jailing on a US Navy brig in Charleston, South Carolina. Mihm
says he cut nine months from Marri’s sentence in response to the harsh
conditions of his imprisonment in isolation.



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