A federal judge ordered the release of five Algerian terror suspects held without charges at Guantanamo Bay prison for almost seven years.In the first civilian court ruling for terror suspects challenging their detention, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon said Thursday that the five men could not be held indefinitely as enemy combatants.
One of the men to be released is Lakhdar Boumediene, whose landmark Supreme Court case last summer gave the Guantanamo detainees the right to challenge their imprisonment. - Fox News
A win for civil liberties.
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