The Associated PressPublished: February 20, 2007
WASHINGTON: In a victory for President George W. Bush, a divided federal appeals court ruled that Guantanamo Bay detainees cannot use the U.S. court system to challenge their indefinite imprisonment. A Supreme Court appeal was promised.

Tuesday's 2-1 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit dismisses hundreds of cases filed by foreign-born detainees in federal court and also threatens to strip away court access to millions of lawful permanent residents currently in the United States.

It upholds a key provision of the Military Commissions Act, which Bush pushed through Congress last year to set up a Defense Department system to prosecute terrorism suspects. Now, detainees must prove to three-officer military panels that they do not pose a terror threat...

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/...s-Lawsuits.php

I applaud this ruling as long as it doesn't threaten the rights of lawful residents in the U. S.

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Rest assured, GloryWarriors... this will be appealed.

That was some good news for a change. '...And justice for all.' (*)(*)(*)(*) right.

Whatever you want to call them, they are enemy soldiers, which have been by long custom, practice, and law been held during hostilities. This nonsense shouldn't have gotten this far.

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They shouldn't go through the U.S. court system, but they shouldn't be denied the rights of habeas corpus.

BTW, if Guantanamo prisoners are really enemy soldiers dangerous to America, then why have 340 been released? I'm serious: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15361740/

Becuase thye go through a process and if deemd to no longer be a seriosu threat(like many simpe Taliban soldier types) they get release..out of that a very small number have gone right back to Terrorism and fighting US forces.

Whats left at Guantanamo now is mostly hardcore fanatics.




The rhetoric of the Far Left is nobody is released and we torture them to death..don't shatter their fantasies with facts......

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"We make war that we may live in peace"
"Peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever."
"Keep that faith,keep your courage,stick together, stay strong,do not yield,do not flinch,stand up,we're Americans,we'll never surrender they will"
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=RnfflRNpwKA
http://youtube.com/watch?v=j-QYIP7o2-A

That is great, terrorists don't deserve a word in their punishment.

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Those who celebrate have not been following this story. The Administration chose Guantanamo precisely because it is NOT on American soil, in a country where we do not have diplomatic relations, and on a long standing military base. In other words, the one place where terrorists are put in a judicial "black hole". US courts do not have jurisdiction in Cuba or in Guantanamo or on a military base. The prisoners are locked into the one area where NO ONE can get at them, except the Supreme Court.

That is the reason why all case law concerning the prisoners in Guantanamo has come out of the Supreme Court. The is the ONLY court that can assume any jurisdiction. The Court of Appeals has no jurisdiction and should rightly turn down any request to even look at the issue.

Illegal aliens are in a completely different situation. They are in the US, and subject to US laws, just like you would be subject to Mexican law if you don't have a legal visa to be there.

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Score one for the anti-Constitutionalists

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