Gitmo Ruling Cheers Family of Detainee

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/04/AR2007060401614.html

Gitmo Ruling Cheers Family of Detainee

By ROB GILLIES
The Associated Press
Monday, June 4, 2007; 8:37 PM

TORONTO -- The family of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner was elated Monday when a U.S. military judge dismissed terrorism-related charges and expressed hope the ruling will eventually lead to his release.

For now, Canadian detainee Omar Khadr remains in custody at the U.S. military base. A judge ruled only that Khadr had not been ruled "an alien unlawful enemy combatant" as required for prosecution under a revised U.S. law, leaving open the possibility new charges could be filed.

Another judge later Monday issued a similar ruling in the case of Salim Ahmed Hamdan of Yemen, who's accused of chauffeuring bin Laden's and being the al-Qaida chief's bodyguard.

"It seems like good news. I guess someone is starting to actually look at the charges and at him as a person rather than just the fact he's allegedly the enemy of the United States," Zaynab Khadr, Omar's 27-year-old sister, said in a telephone interview from the family home in Toronto.

Khadr was 15 when he was captured after a battle in which an American soldier was killed in Afghanistan five years ago.

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1. A long time to be in limbo

like that. Wonder what will happen when we get a Democratic President(someone who is actually elected by the People)..will these prisoners who have the key thrown away be able to get some justice?