Court Blocks Suspect's Transfer to Iraq (American Citizen

[wakeme2008]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-US-Iraq-American.html

ebruary 9, 2007
Court Blocks Suspect's Transfer to Iraq
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 4:32 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal appeals court blocked the Pentagon on Friday from transferring an American citizen to an Iraqi court to face charges he supported terrorists and insurgents.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia unanimously ruled that Shawqi Omar, a citizen of both Jordan and the United States who once served in the Minnesota National Guard, has a right to argue for his release before a U.S. court.

By a 2-1 vote, the panel also upheld an injunction issued last year by U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina here that barred the U.S. military from turning Omar over for trial in an Iraqi cou

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, spokesman Erik Ablin said the Justice Department believes the decision ''will inappropriately interfere with the executive branch's prerogative to prosecute a war and to make good on its commitments to our allies.'' He noted the partial dissent called the ruling unprecedented and said it would effectively block a foreign government from making an arrest on its own soil.


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[Miss Chybil]

1. "the executive branch's prerogative to prosecute a war..."

And somebody said this in the United States of America. What a shame our executive branch has no other interests outside of war.

[saigon68]

2. The chimp and his war criminals

[Eugene]

3. And the dissenting judge was Janice Rogers Brown.

Some Bush & Co. judicial appointments are worth fighting against
especially for cases like this.

[HuffleClaw]

4. WTF????

they refuse to send that cuban terrorist guy to venezuela on the grounds he might be tortured, but want to send some american to iraq? wow.