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Associated PressCourt Refuses to Block Detainee TransferBy PETE YOST
The Associated Press
Tuesday, May 1, 2007; 6:44 PM
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court refused to stop the Bush administration
Tuesday from transferring a Guantanamo Bay detainee to his home country
of Libya.
Lawyers for the man argued he faces torture at the hands of the Libyan
government if sent there.
-snip-The Supreme Court denied Zalita's application seeking an injunction to
prevent the transfer.
-snip-Zalita invoked the international convention against torture, but his request
"ignores Congress's explicit mandate" that U.S. courts not consider
challenges like his, the Justice Department solicitor general's office said.
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