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Judge Orders Five Guantanamo Detainees Freed
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... After hearing the Bush administration's case for holding six Algerians as enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay, a federal judge appointed by the first President Bush and who had been expected to be sympathetic to the government, sided with the defense and ordered the government to free five of the six men. The New York Times reports: ...
Judge orders Bush administration to release five Gitmo detainees.
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... The New York Times notes that in 2002, “President Bush made the government’s allegations against the men a showcase of his administration’s approach to dealing with terrorists. He said in his State of the Union address that the six men had been planning a bomb attack on the United States Embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia.” Glenn Greenwald writes that the ruling demonstrates the “ ...
Federal Judge Orders Release of Guantánamo Detainees
ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society —
... A federal judge has ordered the release of five detainees from Guantánamo Bay. The ruling in the first habeas corpus proceeding involved six Algerians captured in Bosnia in 2001. At the time of their capture, the military maintained that the men were planning to go to Afghanistan to fight the U.S., and later President George W. Bush claimed they were plotting to bomb a U.S. embassy. Recently the Justice Department conceded the detainees could not be held on those accusations. Judge Richard J. Leon of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. ruled today that the ...
Judge Grants Writ of Habeas Corpus for 5 out of 6 Gantanamo Detainees
Discourse.net —
Judge Orders Five Detainees Freed From Guantánamo
In the first hearing on the government’s justification for holding detainees at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, a federal judge ruled Thursday that five Algerian men were held unlawfully for nearly seven years and ordered their release.
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Judge Leon, in a ruling from the bench, said that the information gathered on the men had been sufficient to hold them for intelligence purposes, but was ...
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How Guantanamo Can Be Closed: More Advice for Barack Obama
Antiwar.com Original —
In a previous article , Andy Worthington, author of The Guant namo Files , examined the reasons why Barack Obama must stick to his election promise to close the "War on Terror" prison at Guant namo Bay, focusing on the Bush administration's callous disregard for domestic and international laws, its pursuit of unfettered executive power, the disturbing effects of its policy of offering bounty payments for al-Qaeda and Taliban suspects, the equally disturbing ramifications of its refusal to screen prisoners according to the Geneva Conventions, and the corrupt tribunals established at Guant namo to rubber-stamp the prisoners' ...
