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washingtonpost.com - 11/20/2008

Judge Orders Release of Five Guantanamo Bay Detainees

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scotusblog.com - 11/20/2008

Judge orders five detainees freed

— scotusblog.com — U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon, in the first ruling to carry out the Supreme Court’s June decision on detainees’ rights, ordered the federal government to release five Guantanamo Bay detainees “forthwith.” The judge ... (more) Judge orders five detainees freed

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nytimes.com - 11/20/2008

Judge Orders Five Detainees Freed From Guantánamo

— nytimes.com — In an important test of the Bush administration’s detention policies, a federal judge ruled that five Guantánamo Bay prisoners are not being lawfully held. > (more) Judge Orders Five Detainees Freed From Guantánamo

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corner.nationalreview.com - 11/20/2008

More Boumediene Fall-out: Judge Orders Release of Five Alleged Combatants

— corner.nationalreview.com — The New York Times has details -- which are scant. At issue are six Algerians, one of whom is identified as a member of al Qaeda. His detention was upheld, but Judge Richard Leon -- a Bush 41 appointee reputed to be generally sympathetic to the ... (more) More Boumediene Fall-out: Judge Orders Release of Five ...

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Judge Orders 5 Gitmo Detainees Released
Stop The ACLU — I have asked a more elequent writer to post on this, so you may see more on this later. I just want to do a basic rundown and roundup of reactions on it. Washington Post: For the first time, a federal judge today ordered the release of enemy combatants from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ruling that the government had provided insufficient evidence to continue their detentions. The decision came in the case of six Algerians who were detained in Bosnia after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and have been held at the military prison in Cuba for nearly seven ...

The Constitution Strikes Back
the talking dog — ... of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. ordered the release of 5 (out of 6 litigating) Bosnian/Algerian detainees now held at Guantanamo Bay, granting their habeas corpus petitions . Judge Leon, who is actually the second judge to order detainees released. Judge Ricardo Urbina granted an ostensibly uncontested petition by a group of Chinese nationals who the government conceded were "not enemy combatants," just that they had no rights anyway, and the government got a stay from an appellate court. [The plight of the Uighurs is discussed in my ...