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WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 — The Supreme Court on Monday turned down an appeal challenging the secrecy surrounding the arrest and detention of hundreds of people, nearly all Muslim men, in the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Without comment, the court let stand a ruling by a federal appeals court here that had accepted the Bush administration's rationale for refusing to disclose either the identities of those it arrested, most of whom have since been deported for immigration violations unrelated to terrorism, or the circumstances of the arrests. A complete list of the names "would give terrorist organizations...

<p>The Supreme Court yesterday refused to hear an appeal challenging the government's right to keep secret the names of hundreds of mostly Muslim and Arab-American detainees held by federal authorities in the wake of the September 11 attacks.</p> <p>The justices, without comment, declined to hear an appeal by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for National Security Studies, which sought through a lawsuit against the Justice Department to force the government to release the names and other information about those being detained, including where they were being held.</p>

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court refused Monday to consider whether the government properly withheld names and other details about hundreds of foreigners detained in the months after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. The high court turned down a request to review the secrecy surrounding detainees, nearly all Arabs or Muslims, who were picked up in the United States immediately following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Many if not most of the more than 700 detainees at issue in the case have since been deported. Some picked up after Sept. 11 were charged with crimes,...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court refused Monday to consider whether the government properly withheld names and other details about hundreds of foreigners detained in the months after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites) on Monday allowed the Bush administration to keep secret the names and other basic details about hundreds of people questioned and detained or arrested after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Without comment, the top court refused to hear an appeal by civil liberties and other groups challenging the secret arrests and detentions for violating the Freedom of Information Act and constitutional free-speech rights under the First Amendment. The justices let stand a U.S. appeals court ruling that disclosing the names could harm national security and help those "plotting future...