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01/31/2005 Entry: "udge Backs Guantanamo Detainee Challenges"

WHY NOT JUST LET THEM GO?: It seems some judges are pretty eager to let loose hundreds of Taliban and al-Qaida being held at Guantanamo Bay.

A federal judge ruled Monday that foreign terror suspects held in Cuba can challenge their confinement in U.S. courts and she criticized the Bush administration for holding hundreds of people without legal rights.

Judge Joyce Hens Green, handling claims filed by about 50 detainees at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, said the Supreme Court made clear last year that they have constitutional rights that lower courts should enforce.

Green serves in Washington, D.C...and might not be alive had some passengers not risen up against their hijackers.

Read on. Read the decision here (PDF format).