Legal Opinion
Abd Al-Nashiri v. Bruce MacDonald
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 20, 2013No. 19-56121PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:
Abd A1 Rahim Hussein Al-Nashiri is a noncitizen “enemy combatant” undergoing proceedings before a military commission at the United States Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The charges against Al-Nashiri arose from his alleged role in three terrorist plots: the 2000 attempted bombing of the U.S.S. The Sullivans; the 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, which killed seventeen U.S. military personnel; and the 2002 bombing of the M/V Lim-burg, which killed one civilian. Al-Nashiri seeks a declaratory judgment that the military commission lacks jurisdiction to hear the…
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