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France is studying how to host an Algerian detainee of the detention center of Guantanamo, the U.S. president Barack Obama wants to close by the end of January 2010, according to sources.

    Two Algerian detainees have been bleached by the U.S. justice system and are released since late November. Lakhdar Boumediene, 42 years on hunger strike for over two years – and force-fed according to Amnesty International – and Saber Lahmar, 39 years.

    “France is examining the possibility of a former Algerian detainee at Guantanamo, because there are historical ties between France and Algeria,” said an American official.

    A source close to ongoing discussions between the State Department and France wished to remain anonymous confirmed to the press that negotiations are currently taking place about an Algerian.

    The President Obama and the French president Nicolas Sarkozy are to meet for bilateral talks Friday on the sidelines of a NATO summit and after a G20 meeting in London.

 

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NEW YORK (AP) — A recently released Black September terrorist convicted of placing three powerful car bombs in New York City in 1973 has been deported to Sudan, a violent African nation that once sheltered Osama bin Laden and other terrorists.

Khalid Al-Jawary, 63, was flown out of Denver International Airport on Thursday and arrived Tuesday in Khartoum, said Carl Rusnok, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman.

Details of his deportation were released after Al-Jawary’s federal escorts had safely left the volatile country that was once the site of a bloody Black September attack in the ’70s.

 

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Assia Souhalia her husband Athmane nationals of Algeria and their UK born daughter Nouha, residents of Brighton were ‘Snatched’ from their home yesterday morning and are currently detained in Yarl’s Wood IRC. They are due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Tuesday 17th February on British Airways Flight BA895 from Terminal 5 Heathrow Airport @ 08.40 to Algiers, Algeria.

Assia Souhalia and her husband Athmane have been in the UK since 2002. Their 2 year old daughter Nouha was born in Brighton in 2006 and has lived here all her life. The family have made a life here and have many links in the local community.
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(CNN) — Six detainees were released from the U.S. military’s detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Department of Defense said Saturday.

A guard keeps watch from a tower at the military facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

A guard keeps watch from a tower at the military facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Four of the men were transferred to Iraq, one to Algeria and one to Afghanistan, a military spokesman said.

They had each been detained at Guantanamo for “several years,” according to the military. None of them was charged with a crime.

“The transfer is a demonstration of the United States’ desire not to hold detainees any longer than necessary,” said a Department of Defense statement. “It also underscores the processes put in place to assess each individual and make a determination about their detention while hostilities are ongoing, an unprecedented step in the history of warfare.”

The detainees were among 60 whom the United States has decided to release. Those remaining have not been cleared for release as the government negotiates their return with their home countries.

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A US civil court will review the case of six Algerians detained at Guantanamo who claim their incarceration is illegal. Some 250 prisoners remain at the base, and all of them have filed Habeas Corpus challenges.

Six Algerians detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for the last seven years are to become on Thursday the first prisoners to challenge their continued imprisonment in a US federal court.

The prison at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, where some 800 men classified as “enemy combatants” have been held without trial, is a central piece of outgoing US President George W. Bush’s “war on terror.”

After years of legal wrangling, the US Supreme Court in June granted Guantanamo detainees access to the civil court system and the right to file Habeas Corpus cases challenging their detention. The case of the Algerians is the first of a series of such cases.
“It is not a trial over these men being guilty or innocent, it is only a trial about whether the president can say legally that based on these facts and this law, ‘I have a basis for holding these men’,” defense lawyer Robert Kirsch told AFP.

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[JURIST] The US Department of Defense (DOD) [official website] on Monday announced [press release] the transfer of two Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees to Algeria. The Department says that approximately 60 detainees at the base are eligible for release, and that it is negotiating with host countries to allow their transfer. It said the transfers were approved after a “comprehensive series of review processes,” and that approximately 250 detainees remain at the base.

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By LARA JAKES JORDAN

WASHINGTON (AP) — Seven years after their capture, six Algerian men denied Thursday they planned to fight with al-Qaida and asked to be released from prison in the first case of suspected terrorists challenging their detention at Guantanamo Bay.

The men, who were arrested in Bosnia in the weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, are being held without charges as enemy combatants at the U.S. detention facility on Cuba.

The detainees last summer won the right to sue for their release in U.S. civilian courts following a Supreme Court case by one suspect, humanitarian aid worker Lakhdar Boumediene.

During more than two hours of arguments in federal court in Washington, the Justice Department accused the Algerians of planning to travel to Afghanistan and join al-Qaida in its global jihad against the United States and its allies.

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by Farah Stockman

WASHINGTON – The trial of six Algerian-Bosnians being held at Guantanamo Bay began yesterday at a federal courthouse in Washington D. C., the first after dozens of petitions for release moved forward following a landmark Supreme Court ruling this summer said that detainees have constitutional rights.

Yesterday, as the detainees were authorized to listen in by telephone from the US military base in Cuba, Boston-based lawyer Stephen H. Oleskey, a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, asked US District Judge Richard J. Leon to release them. Technical glitches prevented the detainees from hearing, so Leon ordered that a recording be sent immediately.

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The Ansar Society calls for every concerned Muslim to support his Arab brothers and their families who are torn apart and have had their children separated from their fathers after their citizenships were taken away and they were expelled from Bosnia-Herzegovina by the Security Bureau, which pays no consideration to the rule of law or the circumstances of people. Therefore, the Society reminds every Muslim of his Islamic and historic responsibility before Allah to stand united with their Arab brothers who were willing to give their lives and blood in defense of Bosnia at a time in which everyone – near and far – had abandoned them, and to demand the due rights of safety to these families and to not respond to external pressures to violate legal and human rights.

A call for help:

After the events of September 11th, the Bosnian government revoked all of our citizenships, and then imprisoned the Algerian group and put it in much difficulty. We appealed the ruling in the Bosnian High Court that had issued the ruling in the first place, and it concluded that the ruling was illegal. However, this conclusion came too late, as the group of Algerians had already been handed over to America and was placed in Guantanamo Bay, and the group of Egyptians had been turned over to Egypt, and some of the brothers were handed over to France and Morocco and Tunis. Those of us who remained who did not escape from Bosnia were placed under constant surveillance and were put under extreme pressure of all types. Those who were left after this had a special committee of Bosnian ministers formed to facilitate the revoking of our citizenships, and the council began the process, and has now revoked 620 of them, most from the Arabs who came to study and some who engaged in relief work, but the majority were those of the Arab fighters.

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WASHINGTON – A federal court judge who is hearing a historic case involving Guantanamo Bay detainees lashed out yesterday at Congress and the Supreme Court for not defining “enemy combatant,” a label that can trigger a suspect’s detention without charge for the duration of a war.

In a rare public hearing, US District Judge Richard J. Leon said that question remains unresolved more than six years after suspects were first brought to Guantanamo Bay. “We are here today, much to my dismay, I might add, to deal with a legal question that in my judgment should have been resolved a long time ago,” Leon said.

“I don’t understand, I really don’t, how the Supreme Court made the decision it made and left that question open. . . .I don’t understand how the Congress could let it go this long without resolving” it, Leon said.

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