In June in Front of USSC Bush folks said American-born "enemy combatant" could not be freed because he might rejoin Taliban. Today a joint announcement Bush folks/"enemy combatant" statement about freeing the fellow?
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-hamdi12aug12.story 'Enemy Combatant' May Soon Be Freed
Officials are in talks to send the U.S.-born detainee to Saudi Arabia after his legal victory.
By David G. Savage
Times Staff Writer
August 12, 2004
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration on Wednesday took the first step toward release of the American-born "enemy combatant" whose case resulted in a landmark Supreme Court defeat for the White House six weeks ago.
Four months after telling the justices in oral arguments that holding Yaser Esam Hamdi in military confinement was crucial to national security and the war on terrorism, administration lawyers told a judge Wednesday that they were negotiating arrangements to send him back to his family in Saudi Arabia.
In a joint motion filed in Norfolk, Va., lawyers for Hamdi and the Bush administration said they hoped "to resolve this matter under terms and conditions … that would allow Mr. Hamdi to be released." They asked the judge for 21 days to work out the details.
The swift turnaround by the government took even some civil liberties advocates by surprise.
"If all goes well, this is a huge victory for the rule of law," said Deborah N. Pearlstein, a lawyer for Human Rights First. "The reality is that the Supreme Court handed the administration a huge defeat, and releasing Hamdi is one way of complying with that ruling."<snip>
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