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U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Leon Wednesday ordered the release of five of the six habeas defendants in Boumediene v. Bush/Al Odah v. U.S (pdf).
In the first case of its kind, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon said the government's evidence linking the five Algerians to al-Qaida was not credible as it came from a single, unidentified source. Therefore, he said the five could not be held indefinitely as enemy combatants, and should be released immediately.
"To allow enemy combatancy to rest on so thin a reed would be inconsistent with the court's obligation," Leon told the crowded courtroom.
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After these men are released the medical conditions will show they were tortured and now insane. These men were innocent from the beginning but the US didn't want to admit they were wrong so they were held and tortured for 7 years. There are children in Gito being tortured and rape by the USA. Americans have set back and done nothing but it will come a time when all of us will pay for what we allowed Bush/Cheney to do. I don't think even Obama can get us out of what will happen.
In the future some enemy will do the same thing to Americans as we have done at Gitmo.
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