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posted by admin
on Thursday December 02, @07:39PM
from the can't-touch-this dept.
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uh, oh... who deigns to question the authority of our LEADER?!
Pentagon Says 550 'Enemy Combatants' Are Confined Properly, Seeks Benefit of Doubt on Detentions
By Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, December 2, 2004; Page A04
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federal judge yesterday questioned the Bush administration's broad
definition of its powers to indefinitely imprison alleged Taliban and
al Qaeda fighters at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
especially those who have never taken up arms against the United
States.
U.S. District Judge Joyce Hens Green's questions came
as the Defense Department argued during a hearing that it has properly
imprisoned 550 people as "enemy combatants" at Guantanamo Bay, based on
at least some evidence that they were Taliban or al Qaeda members or
assisted or supported terrorist groups.
http://www.washingtonpost.com
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