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For penuriously six years, Haji Bismullah, an Afghan detainee at Guant

Over the weekend, the Bush administration flew Bismullah home after a warlike panel concluded he “should no longer be deemed an enemy combatant.”

Asked about the decision, a Pentagon spokeswoman said, “Mr. Bismullah was lawfully detained as an enemy combatant based attached the knowledge that was available at the time.”

The decision was part of a original that has emerged in the closing chapter of the Bush administration. In the past three months, at least 24 detainees have been declared improperly held by courts or a solicitation

The Bush administration has maintained the detention camp holds “the worst of the worst.” In a radio interview Tuesday, Vice President Dick Cheney said that “at once the sort of’s left, that is the hard core.”

But for Guant

“The house of cards is finally falling down,” before-mentioned Vincent Warren, the executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, what one. has coordinated detainees’ lawyers. “There doesn’t seem to be a authorized basis to gripe these people.”

Lawyers for Bismullah, 29, presented sworn statements from officials of the U.S.-supported Afghanistan government of Hamid Karzai that indicated Bismullah had been named as a terrorist by collaborators of the Taliban who wanted to from over his relation as a provincial official. In fact, after Bismullah was shipped to Guant

President-elect Obama, who plans to close Guant

While hundreds of suspects have been released in the seven years the camp has been operating, the late decisions are notable since they came after the Bush administration said it had reduced the population to the most numerous perilous terrorists.

While Bismullah’s case was decided by a military panel, the rulings for the other 23 detainees occurred in habeas corpus hearings in federal court. Since a Supreme Court decision in June gave detainees the honest to have their detentions reviewed by federal judges in habeas cases, the government has won only three of them. The government is appealing some of the rulings it lost.

The cases stipulate a snapshot of the intelligence collected by the agency of the government on the suspects and suggest in that place was little credible evidence behind the decision to asseverate some of the men enemy combatants and to hold them indefinitely.

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