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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (692762)	7/19/2005 5:00:14 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 769670

Jose Padilla..his attorney said today: ``I may be the first lawyer in the history of this court to stand here and say I'm asking for my client to be indicted,'' Patel said. Today's hearing lasted about 90 minutes and the court gave no indication of when it may rule. Padilla is being held in solitary confinement and wasn't in the courtroom. Padilla, the only U.S. citizen now being held as an enemy combatant, trained with an explosives expert in Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network in Afghanistan and was assigned to blow up U.S. apartment buildings with natural gas, according to the Justice Department. Patel told the court today that Padilla, as a U.S. citizen, is entitled to have his case heard in a civilian, not military, court. Enemy Combatants The Bush administration says enemy combatants may be held until the war on terrorism is over or until military authorities decide on a case-by-case basis it is safe to release them. The policy covers captured fighters who aren't treated as traditional prisoners of war or who haven't been charged with a crime. bloomberg.com