Jose Padilla's lawyers have convinced an Appeals Court to demand the Bush Administration (through AJ Alberto Gonzales) explain why it held him for nearly three years as an enemy combatant for an alleged plot to set off a radiological dirty bomb, only to finally indict him on lesser charges.
This appears to be a trick to force the administration into publicly admitting A) why they were afraid to test the enemy combatant designation in the Supreme Court, and/or B) why they didn't want two AQ terrorists to act as witnesses for the prosecution in the dirty bomb charge.
The two witnesses are both top-level al-Qaida operators, presumably both housed in secret detention facilities run by the CIA somewhere outside America. One of them is the mastermind of the 9/11 attack, Khalid Sheihk Mohammed. Ironically, his nephew sits in the Supermax prison in Colorado convicted of trying to blow up the WTC the first time back in 1993.
Do these lawyers realize there is a war going on? Do they realize the folks they are defending want to murder us all with extreme prejudice? Besides, they would have no practice under Sharia law.
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