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January 6, 2010

Court Upholds Sweeping Authority to Jail Terror Suspects
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A federal appeals court has ruled the government can bypass
international law to imprison any suspect it can link to al-Qaeda, the
Taliban and similar groups. On Tuesday, a three-judge panel upheld a
lower court decision affirming the imprisonment of a Yemeni citizen
who’s admitted to being a cook for an al-Qaeda-linked group. The
prisoner, Ghaleb Nassar al-Bihani, has been jailed at Guantanamo since
2002.



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