He seemed to suggest that while he might be guilty of involvement to terrorism, he had little, if any, involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks and therefore did not deserve to die.
His name features on US and UN sanctions lists of people suspected of involvement in terrorism - accused of recruiting young Kenyan Muslims for violent militant activity in Somalia.
Neither version incorporates the administration's proposal to allow, without the filing of charges, indefinite detention of foreigners suspected of involvement in terrorism.
Patrick Leahy, the chair of the Senate judiciary committee, is pushing his own legislation, which looks likely to be less far-reaching than the bipartisan bill submitted on Wednesday night, but which would also prevent the NSA and partner agencies from collecting millions of phone records of Americans, irrespective of whether they are suspected of involvement in terrorism.
This episode, largely buried in history, resurfaced recently in an unexpected place: the Obama administration's "white paper" justifying targeted killings of Americans suspected of involvement in terrorism.
Turnbull's comments provide an insight into the Coalition's internal dispute over how to deal with the citizenship of Australians suspected of involvement in terrorism.
B7 RESTRICTED RIGHTS -- A new Justice Department policy of monitoring communications between people suspected of involvement in terrorism and their lawyers is an example of how the expansive terrorism investigation is restricting rights.
James Cole, the deputy attorney general, said that the NSA needs "reasonable, articulable suspicion" of involvement in terrorism before searching the millions of Americans' phone records that it collects.
Most of those ordered deported had been held in Belmarsh prison since shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States, when Britain enacted a law permitting indefinite detention without charge of foreign nationals suspected of involvement in terrorism.
Prosecutors often charged defendants accused of involvement in terrorism with conspiracy or "material support" of groups said to engage in terrorism.
The Israeli Army said it had arrested 60 Palestinian security officers and dozens of civilians whom it suspected of involvement in terrorism.
