Informant38

Mike Hawash is a U.S. citizen, and is being held without being charged with any crime;

Mike is being held in a high-security federal prison;

Mike is being held as a material witness, but is not charged with any crime. The Government has not said that they have questioned Mike. In similar cases, Arab-Americans have been held for weeks or months as material witnesses before being released without even being questioned;

Mike has been a U.S. citizen and resident for 14 years. He is an Arab-American. His wife Lisa was born and raised in Roseburg, OR, and stepchild and children were born and raised in Hillsboro, OR, where they live;

The warrants and subpoenas in Mike's case are all secret, sealed by the court at the U.S. government's request. Mike's two detention hearings have both been secret. No information about the reasons for his detention have been released.

Mike has a job, a home, a family, and deep roots in his community. Historically, "material witness" arrests were solely for grand-jury or trial witnesses who were a "flight risk". The U.S. has held other Arab-American and Muslim men for as long as 15 months without charge as "material witnesses"

from the Free Maher "Mike" Hawash site

{an armband, say red with a yellow crescent on it? something to make them readily identifiable, and then later as the economy tilts over into out and out depression, some camps...}