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| November 17, 2001 | Taylor, Stuart, Jr. | COPYRIGHT 2001 Atlantic Media, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

More than 1,180 men, most of them Middle Eastern, have been locked up in connection with the September 11 mass murders with virtually no public disclosure of who they are, where they are, or what crimes or immigration violations they have been suspected of committing. A regulation is quietly slipped into the Federal Register authorizing government officials to listen in on consultations between some of these detainees and their lawyers. A presidential order allows for future military detention and trials of foreigners accused of terrorist war crimes.

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