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Article: Court to Rule on 'Enemy Combatant' Label
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- November 17, 2003
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LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
11-17-2003
Dateline: NEW YORK
A federal appeals judge said Monday it would be "a sea change" in the Constitution to allow the Bush administration to designate a U.S. citizen suspected in an alleged dirty bomb plot as an enemy combatant.
In a critical showdown between the government and civil rights lawyers, two members of a three-judge federal panel seemed hesitant to embrace the government's reasoning for why Jose Padilla, 33, should be held indefinitely without access to a lawyer and without being charged.
Padilla, a Muslim, is accused of plotting with al-Qaida to detonate a "dirty" bomb," which uses conventional explosives to disperse ...