Legal Opinion
Al Alwi v. Obama
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 22, 2011No. 18-1157PublishedCited by 75 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge GARLAND.
GARLAND, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal from the denial of the petition of Moath Hamza Ahmed Al Alwi— a detainee at the United States Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — for a writ of habeas corpus. For the reasons stated below, we affirm the judgment of the district court.
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Al Alwi is a Yemeni citizen who was raised in Saudi Arabia. According to the government, he traveled to Afghanistan sometime in or around 2000, intending to join the Taliban’s fight against the Northern Alliance. By the government’s account, Al Alwi stayed in several…
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- Smith v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
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