Federal judge orders release of 5 Guantanamo detainees

[CrimsonWhite]

You can bet your ass that this is going to be appealed.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A federal judge ordered the release of five Guantanamo Bay detainees Thursday, saying the government failed to show that they were "enemy combatants."

Judge Richard Leon issued the order in the case of six detainees who were challenging their detention after the Supreme Court ruled in June that all Guantanamo detainees could fight their detentions.

On Thursday, Leon ruled that five of the six should be released because the government failed to show by a preponderance of evidence that any of them, other than one man identified as bin Saeed, had planned to travel to Afghanistan to take up arms against the United States and its allies, as the government claimed.

Claims by a single source against five of the men brought up questions of credibility, reliability and corroboration, the judge said.

However, the government had provided sufficient evidence against the sixth man, the judge ruled.

Federal judge orders release of 5 Guantanamo detainees - CNN.com

 

[Murf76]

I wonder where they're planning on releasing these people.
Surely, they won't be wandering about loose in the US, right???

Bwahahaha! What was I thinking?
We'll be lucky if the liberals soon-to-be in charge of this country don't commandeer our homes so they can have us tuck these terrorists into widdle beds at night.

 

[CrimsonWhite]

Another story on it.

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