ALI v. OBAMA

No. 11-5102.

736 F.3d 542 (2013)

Abdul Razak ALI, Detainee, Appellant v. Barack OBAMA, President, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided December 3, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Candace Gorman argued the cause and filed the briefs for appellant.

Sydney Foster , Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, argued the cause for appellees. With her on the brief were Stuart F. Delery , Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Ian Heath Gershengorn , Deputy Assistant Attorney General, and Robert M. Loeb , Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice. Matthew M. Collette and Douglas N. Letter , Attorneys, U.S. Department of Justice, entered appearances.

Opinion concurring in the judgment filed by Senior Circuit Judge EDWARDS.


KAVANAUGH, Circuit Judge.

The United States is engaged in an ongoing war against al Qaeda, the Taliban, and associated forces. In March 2002, as part of that war, Abdul Razak Ali was captured by U.S. and Pakistani forces at a four-bedroom house in Faisalabad, Pakistan. After Ali's capture, the U.S. military detained him as an enemy combatant. Since June 2002, Ali has been held at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

When captured at the house in Pakistan...

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