Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri (Arabic: علي صالح كحلة المري ) (b. 1966/1967) is a citizen of Qatar who was arrested on charges of being a sleeper al Qaeda agent while studying at Bradley University in the United States. After denying any wrongdoing since his arrest, al-Marri pled guilty in a plea agreement to the federal charges on April 30, 2009. After a transfer from Federal Correctional Institution, Pekin, he has been held at United States Penitentiary, Florence since March 2010. Previously, he had been detained in solitary confinement for six years at the Naval Consolidated Brig, Charleston. Al-Marri is the only non-citizen known to have been held as an enemy combatant in the continental United States since September 11. In July 2008, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld the government's authority to hold Al-Marri as an enemy combatant, but also ruled that he was entitled to contest his detention in federal court. In February 2009, reports emerged that Al-Marri had been indicted by the federal government.
Al-Marri was released from detention by the Secretary of Defense on March 10, 2009 and was served an arrest warrant the same morning at the Charleston naval brig. He was immediately taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals Service.
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