http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/02/surprise_terrorist_loves_colbe.asp Surprise: Terrorist Loves Colbert Report, Daily Show
Jane Mayer delves into the case of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri in last week's issue of the New Yorker and quotes Greg Craig discussing the false hard choices this administration will have to make:
Obama’s legal team is aware that every step it takes will be seen as an indication of core convictions. Craig, who will coördinate the revamping of the Bush Administration’s legal policies on terrorism, said, “One way we’ve looked at this is that we own the solution. We don’t own the problem—it was created by the previous Administration. But we’ll be held accountable for how we handle this.”
It seems Craig believes that the problem is Gitmo -- not the terrorists who are being held there. As far as al-Marri, the last enemy combatant held on U.S. soil, he's living pretty well at the Naval Brig in Charleston, S.C. Mayer reports:
Marri’s conditions have so improved that his lawyers jokingly refer to him these days as “the Emir of the S.H.U.”—the high-security wing of the brig is known as the Special Housing Unit. He remains the sole prisoner in the wing, but he now has the regular use of three cells, which he refers to as his “executive suite.” One cell contains a memory-foam mattress. Another houses a personal library containing hundreds of volumes. The third contains alcohol-free cleaning supplies, in compliance with his Muslim religious needs. When visitors come, he sees them in an upper-tier room that he calls his “summer chalet.” He also has exclusive access to a thousand-square-foot dayroom equipped with a treadmill and an elliptical machine. Officially barred from watching the evening news, Marri has become a devotee of Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart—whom he calls “that Jewish guy.”
And in case you're wondering, al-Marri was elated by the election of Barack Obama. His lawyer tells the author, "He’s happy about Obama, but worried he won’t be able to fulfill all the promises and expectations.”
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