Al-Marri was a graduate student at Bradley University and a legal resident of the United States when arrested in December 2001 in Illinois by the federal government . Two years after his arrest , he was indicted on charges of credit card fraud , but in 2003 , he was classified as an enemy combatant and transferred to military custody . He was detained for six years at the Naval Consolidated Brig at Charleston , South Carolina , in solitary confinement . He is the only non-citizen known to have been held as an enemy combatant within the continental United States since the September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri