Legal Opinion
Amanatullah v. Obama
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided November 15, 2012No. Civil Action No. 2010-0536PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
ROYCE C. LAMBERTH, Chief Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
Before the Court is the government’s Motion to Dismiss Petitioner Amanatullah’s First Amended Petition for Habeas Corpus for Lack of Subject Matter Jurisdiction. [ECF No. 10]. For reasons given below, the Court will GRANT the government’s motion and dismiss Amanatullah’s petition.
II. BACKGROUND
Amanatullah, a citizen of Pakistan, has been detained by the United States at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan (“Ba-gram”) for several years. See First Am. Pet. for Writ of Habeas Corpus (“Habeas Pet.”) [ECF No. 9] ¶¶ 1, 11. In 2010,…
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