“I never imagined that the country I was born in would stop me from coming home for five months and separate me from my family, especially when I was not even charged with a crime,” Jaber Ismail said in a statement Sunday. “I went to Pakistan for religious studies, but I knew that I always wanted to return home to California.”
In April, the Ismails were barred from boarding a connecting flight to San Francisco from Hong Kong and returned to Pakistan. There, Jaber Ismail was questioned by FBI agents, but the two refused further interviews and a polygraph. - MSNBC -------- Maybe they shoul have been tortured strongly interviewed to convince them to take a polygraph.
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...especially when I was not even charged with a crime
I guess he hasn't been keeping up with the news. You don't need to be charged with a crime to be detained in the US. The President can deem you an "enemy combatant" and your rights pretty much disappear. You wouldn't have the right to challenge your detention, for example, or to see the evidence against you.
('...the definition of an unlawful enemy combatant [covers] anyone who has “has purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States.” Quick, define “purposefully and materially.” One person has already been charged with aiding terrorists because he sold a satellite TV package that includes the Hezbollah network...www.truthdig.com)
