Did U.S. Push Detention Of American Without Charges?
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McClatchy Washington Bureau :
WASHINGTON - An American Muslim subjected to several years of intense FBI scrutiny and questioning about links to terrorism has been held without charges, access to a lawyer or contact with his family for nearly three months by the security services of the United Arab Emirates.
The case of Naji Hamdan, coupled with FBI interrogations of an American citizen secretly detained without charges in East Africa, raises the question of whether the Bush administration has asked other nations to hold Americans suspected of terrorism links whom U.S. officials lack the evidence to charge.

First Posted: 11-18-08 10:53 AM | Updated: 12-19-08 05:12 AM