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Ashcroft: U.S. will win Al-Najjar case-- An immigration judge who reviewed the secret evidence in 1997 agreed that it showed Al-Najjar to be a national security threat. But a federal judge in Miami who declined to review the secret evidence, ruled last year that the government must either reveal the information or free Al-Najjar.

That judge was backed up by then, Attorney General, Janet Reno.

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Al-Najjar case won't test use of secret evidence--With Mazen Al-Najjar in jail again under a final deportation order, a federal appeals court has dismissed as moot the question of whether the government wrongly detained him for 3 1/2 years on the basis of classified evidence allegedly linking him to terrorism. U.S. law gives Attorney General John Ashcroft "unambiguous authority" to take Al-Najjar into custody because an appeals court affirmed his final deportation order Nov. 13, a three-judge panel wrote in an order released Wednesday. As a result, the court said, there is no case for it to decide.