Congressional Digest

Supreme Court Debates January 2008 No. 1 Vol. 11
Lakmar Boumediene, et al.

Enemy Detainees

The Legality of Military Tribunals

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Lakmar Boumediene, et al.

Petitioners

Seth P. Waxman, Counsel of Record LakmarBoumediene is a native of Algeriawho emigrated to Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s. He and five otherAlgerians were arrested by Bosnian police in October 2001 for allegedlyplotting an attack on the U.S.embassy in Sarajevo.On January 17, 2002, the Bosnian Supreme Court ordered the suspects releasedfor lack of evidence. The Bosnian police turned the six over to U.S. militaryofficials, who transported them to the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba,where they have been held ever since. In July 2004, Boumediene, his fivecompanions, and several other prisoners at GuantánamoBay commenced habeas corpus proceedingsin U.S.Federal…

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