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By Matt Apuzzo
The Associated Press
Monday 13 November 2006
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Washington - Immigrants arrested in the United States may be held indefinitely on suspicion of terrorism and may not
challenge their imprisonment in civilian courts, the Bush administration said Monday, opening a new legal front in the
fight over the rights of detainees.
In court documents filed with the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., the Justice Department said a new
anti-terrorism law being used to hold detainees in Guantanamo Bay also applies to foreigners captured and held in the
United States.
Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri, a citizen of Qatar, was arrested in 2001 while studying in the United States. He has been
labeled an "enemy combatant," a designation that, under a law signed last month, strips foreigners of the right to
challenge their detention in federal courts.
That law is being used to argue the Guantanamo Bay cases, but Al-Marri represents the first detainee inside the United
States to come under the new law. Aliens normally have the right to contest their imprisonment, such as when they are
arrested on immigration violations or for other crimes.
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