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Thursday, August 26, 2004

US government seeks delay in Hamdi case
Maryam at 9:29 PM ET

On Thursday the US government asked a VA federal judge to delay for seven days a scheduled hearing in the enemy combatant case of Yaser Esam Hamdi, the US citizen captured in Afghanistan in 2001. Hamdi has been in solitary confinement in a military jail. His lawyers began negotiating his release after the US Supreme Court's June ruling that enemy combatants may not be held indefinitely without legal rights. The government's motion to stay is online here [PDF]. AP has more. The US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia provides court documents and case information on Hamdi v. Rumsfeld here. Read more about Hamdi's legal arguments here.

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