AL BAHLUL v. U.S.

No. 19-1076.

967 F.3d 858 (2020)

Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman AL BAHLUL, Petitioner v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided August 4, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michel Paradis , Washington, DC, Counsel, Office of the Chief Defense Counsel, argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs were Mary McCormick , Timothy McCormick , and Todd E. Pierce .

Eric S. Montalvo , Washington, DC, was on the brief for amici curiae The Anti-Torture Initiative of the Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law in support of petitioner.

Joseph Palmer , Washington, DC, Attorney, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Steven M. Dunne , Chief, and Danielle S. Tarin , Attorney.

Before: Griffith and Rao, Circuit Judges, and Edwards, Senior Circuit Judge.


Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul was Osama bin Laden's head of propaganda at the time of the September 11 attacks. After he was captured in Pakistan, Al Bahlul was tried and convicted by a military commission in Guantanamo Bay. Our court subsequently vacated two of his three convictions on ex post facto grounds and remanded...

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