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"The case was transferred to military custody Sunday, Ashcroft said, after President Bush designated Padilla as an "enemy combatant who poses a serious and continuing threat to the American people and our national security."
Padilla is being held in the Naval Consolidated Brig in Charleston, S.C. It was unclear whether he might be headed for trial by a military tribunal, possibly as the first defendant to face such a panel since Bush announced last year that he would create tribunals as part of the war on terrorism.
Bush has said the tribunals would apply only to non-U.S. citizens. It is unclear whether Padilla would be an exception to that rule..."
Mr Padilla is a United States citizen. He is entitled to all of the rights of Americans as they are spelled out in the Constitution. He was arrested on American soil. Regardless of his slimey status as an enemy of the United States, trying this man by a military tribunal is an outrage.
This so called war can last for ever and the President even said as much. So that means that our rights are trashed. By, by miss American pie...
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