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Some Faith that we can recover from Bush - Appeals court rules for Guantanamo detainee
Bush Looses

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iMGYLFEpaIYdDKnblerG5_TNg-_gD91FRE6O2

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court, in the first case it reviewed, has overturned the Pentagon's classification of a Guantanamo detainee as an enemy combatant.

A three judge-panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said Huzaifa Parhat (pronounced hoo-ZY'-fah PAHR'-haht), a Chinese Muslim known as a Uighur, is not an enemy combatant, undermining the basis for his more than six years in detention.

The court rejected the Bush administration's argument that the president has the power to detain people who never took up arms against the U.S.
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