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Article: Appeals court to rule on 'enemy combatant' label for U.S. citizen in Sept. 11 probe
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- November 18, 2003
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LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
11-18-2003
Dateline: NEW YORK
A federal appeals judge said it would be "a sea change" in the Constitution to allow President George W. Bush's 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 ...