Legal Opinion
Hatim v. Obama
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided December 15, 2009No. Civil Action No.: 05-1429 (RMU)PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Granting Petitioner Hatim’s Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus
RICARDO M. URBINA, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
The petitioner, Saeed Mohammed Saleh Hatim (“petitioner Hatim” or “the petitioner”), has been detained at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba (“GTMO”) for over seven years based on the govern ment’s suspicion, heretofore untested in any domestic court, that he acted as part of the al-Qaida apparatus in Afghanistan. More than three years after his capture and transfer to GTMO, the petitioner filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus challenging the legality of his…
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