US Refuses to Let Guantanamo Man Cross Airspace

[NVMojo]

I guess they are afraid he will jump out???


Thu Jan 20, 2005 06:25 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington has refused to allow an Australian terrorism suspect due to be freed from the Guantanamo prison in Cuba to be flown across the United States because Canberra will not shackle him, an Australian official said on Thursday.
The United States has agreed under pressure from its ally to free Mamdouh Habib, who has been held at the U.S. naval base for almost three years as an "enemy combatant" on suspicion he helped al Qaeda. Washington has brought no charges against the Australian but says it still regards him as a "threat."

"The United States has a requirement that he does not return home via the United States," Matt Francis, a spokesman at the Australian Embassy in Washington, said.

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=7387703

[Benhurst]

1. The symbolic American eagle should be replaced with a

chicken -- Chicken Little.