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November 19, 2008

ACLU: US Is Asking Other Nations to Detain US Citizens
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The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a suit alleging that the
Bush administration has asked other countries to detain US citizens on
their behalf. Mc Clatchy Newspapers reports the suit centers around the
case of Naji Hamdan, a US citizen who has been held for nearly three
months in the United Arab Emirates without charges, access to a lawyer
or contact with his family. In 2006, Hamdan moved to the UAE from the
United States after being the target of intense FBI scrutiny. In August,
Hamdan was questioned at the US embassy in Abu Dhabi by two FBI agents.
He was detained by UAE officials several weeks later.



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