A former so-called “enemy combatant” who was jailed in the US for over six years without charge has been sentenced to over eight years in prison. Ali al-Marri pleaded guilty to a single conspiracy charge earlier this year after the Obama charged him to avoid a Supreme Court hearing challenging his indefinite imprisonment. As part of his guilty plea, al-Marri admitted to attending militant training camps and traveling to the US under the direction of al-Qaeda leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. In sentencing Marri to about half the maximum fifteen-year term, US District Judge Michael Mihm appeared to give him credit for his indefinite jailing on a US Navy brig in Charleston, South Carolina. Mihm says he cut nine months from Marri’s sentence in response to the harsh conditions of his imprisonment in isolation.