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  • Bush's power to detain US enemy combatant upheld

    09/09/2005 9:31:58 AM PDT · by george76 · 10 replies · 391+ views
    Reuters ^ | Sep 9, 2005 | Reuters
    President Bush has the power to detain Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen who has been held in a South Carolina military brig for more than three years as a suspected enemy combatant without any charges, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday. "The exceedingly important question before us is whether the president of the United States possesses the authority to detain militarily a citizen of this country who is closely associated with al Qaeda,"... A major victory for the Bush administration, but the decision can be appealed to the full appeals court or to the U.S. Supreme Court. Padilla, a...