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In its June Boumediene ruling, the Supreme Court dreamed up a constitutional right for alien enemy combatants to challenge their detention in court.(The Week)(Brief article)

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In its June Boumediene ruling, the Supreme Court dreamed up a constitutional right for alien enemy combatants to challenge their detention in court. Now the disastrous consequences of that ruling are clear: A judge has ordered that 17 jihadists be released--into the United States. The men are Chinese Uighur Muslims attached to a terrorist organization affiliated with al-Qaeda. They attended terrorist training camps in Afghanistan. Several took up arms against American forces, and some have joined other jihadist detainees in riots at Guantanamo Bay. Nonetheless, in a fit of political correctness that ignores jihadist ideology, the military reasoned that the Uighurs were not really a threat to the U.S., but only to China. ...

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