I protest.

Misleading headlines department.

CNN Online has an article with the following headline: "Freedom denied for terror defendant." This suggests that the defendant has either been found guilty or is still awaiting trial on charges related to terrorism.

Actually, though, neither is true, as one immediately discovers upon reading the article:

A Moroccan immigrant acquitted of terrorism charges but convicted of document fraud has been ordered detained until his sentencing.

Attorney James Thomas had asked that his client, Ahmed Hannan, be granted bail, because the 20 months he served while awaiting the terrorism trial may be more than sentencing guidelines will suggest he spend in prison for his conviction.

Hannan was indeed found guilty. Of "conspiracy to engage in document fraud and misuse of visas, permits and other documents." He was acquitted of "conspiracy to support terrorism."

At this point, the man is not a "terror defendant." He's a convicted felon, perhaps, but the time he has already spent in jail is likely to greatly exceed his sentence, suggested by guidelines to be no more than six months. In other words, this is a relatively minor crime. Of course, "prosecutors oppose releasing Hannan, in part because they may ask Rosen to sentence him closer to the five-year maximum." They want to throw the book at him, then deport him.

I guess he made the big mistake of having been born Moroccan, eh?