Are the terrorist suspects held at the Guantanamo Naval Base more akin to people accused in a criminal case or to German prisoners of war in 1944?An accused criminal can go to federal court to challenge his imprisonment; a German POW couldn’t.
On Wednesday, the justices will hear an hour of arguments in the latest Guantanamo case, that of Lakhdar Boumediene and other detainees.
According to their lawyers, Boumediene and his fellow plaintiffs are Algerians who lived in Bosnia, were arrested by Bosnian police in 2001, and were turned over to U.S. custody. They claim they are not terrorists.
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