{Louisville, Kentucky}...Twenty-four year old Mohanad Shareef Hammadi, an Iraqi man facing terrorism charges in Kentucky, is asking U.S. District Judge Thomas B. Russell to release him to home detention until his August 27th trial in Bowling Green. Russell has postponed the trial from the original date of July 30th because of a scheduling conflict. Attorney James Earhart is due in federal court Wednesday in Louisville for a hearing on the bail request. Earhart says his client has been held in solitary confinement for more than a year under an assumed name and with no contact with other inmates or access, television, radio or outdoor recreation during the daytime, violating Hammadi's constitutional rights. Charles Rose, a former Army intelligence officer and military attorney, says there may be intelligence or national security reasons for keeping Hammadi under an assumed name and in isolation. Hammadi faces 12 charges, including attempting to send material support such as rocket-propelled grenade launchers, sniper rifles, machine guns and explosives to al-Qaida. Co-defendant, 30 year old Waad Ramadan Alwan, has pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing on October 2nd.
