Bush loses another terror case

You know, many more cases like this (see Hamdi, Rasul,and Hamdan) its gonna make it awfully dicey for the GOP to run on the terrorism issue. That's especially so if these people get their day in court and win.

What do you do with a U.S. citizen detained by the U.S. military in Iraq and accused of aiding terrorists?

The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for D.C. said today in a decision eclipsed by the wall-to-wall coverage of Anna Nicole Smith’s death that if you’re the U.S. government, you must give him a chance to argue his innocence in a U.S. court.

That’s not what the Bush Administration wanted to hear, however. The administration had wanted to turn Ahmed Omar over to an Iraqi court for trial.

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