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DETENTION UPHELD. In the case of YASER ESAM HAMDI, 22, a Louisiana-born man captured with Taliban forces in Afghanistan and now held in a Navy brig in Norfolk, Va.; by an appeals court in Richmond. The court ruled that the government can detain a U.S. citizen captured in an overseas battle indefinitely if the military declares him an "enemy combatant...
...June 10, Newman was driving to work when she got a call from a friend at court: Padilla was no longer in New York. In the middle of the night, the Defense Department had removed him from prison and placed him in a private wing of a Navy brig in Charleston, S.C.--with no charge, no access to lawyer or visitors, no warrant and no warning. By making Padilla the first American citizen in the war against terrorism to be held without charges inside the U.S., the government had ignited a debate about whether it has the power to strip...
...litany of constitutional violations, from the right to a speedy trial to the right to counsel to the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits soldiers from engaging in police activity on U.S. soil. The revision also added a few new targets: Commander M.A. Marr--the officer in charge of the brig in South Carolina--Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and President Bush...
...build a case against Padilla that would stand up in court. On Sunday, June 9, the day before Padilla could have been released under laws protecting U.S. citizens from indefinite detention, President Bush approved Padilla's reclassification as an "enemy combatant." He was transferred after midnight to the brig of a South Carolina naval base...
...quite radioactive) dust settled on Ashcroft's dramatic announcement, some began asking not only why Mr. Padilla, a U.S. citizen, was being held in a Navy brig as an "enemy combatant," but also why he was dominating America's headlines - and its nightmares. Within hours of Ashcroft's announcement, administration officials were pointing out that Padilla had no radioactive material or any other bomb-making equipment. Nor had he chosen a target, or formulated a plan. And while his connections with al-Qaeda operatives were never in doubt, he suddenly began to look a lot more like the accused shoe...