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Article: Appeals court rules suspect is held illegally as 'enemy combatant'
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- International Herald Tribune
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- June 12, 2007
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Adam Liptak
International Herald Tribune
06-12-2007
In a stinging rejection of one of the Bush administration's central assertions about the scope of executive authority to combat terrorism, a federal appeals court ruled Monday that the Pentagon may not continue to detain a man being held in the United States as an ''enemy combatant.''The ruling was handed down by a divided three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, in Richmond, Virginia, in the case of Ali al-Marri, a citizen of Qatar and the only person on the American mainland known to be held as an enemy combatant.Writing for the majority, Judge Diana Gribbon Motz ordered the trial judge in the case to ...