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Constitutional Law

Nov. 30, 2005

Count Your Blessings: An Open Letter to Ex-'Combatant' Padilla

Forum Column - By Stephen F. Rohde - Dear Jose Padilla: This Thanksgiving, I'm sure you have a lot to be thankful for. After all, this Thanksgiving you'll be in a prison cell in Miami, Fla., rather than the Navy brig in South Carolina, where you've been held incommunicado by the U.S. government since June 9, 2002, when President George W. Bush signed a military order designating you as an "enemy combatant" for being "associated with al Qaeda," and asserting the unreviewable power to hold you indefinitely, without charges and without lawyers.

        
        
Forum Column

By Stephen F. Rohde
        
        Dear Jose Padilla:
        This Thanksgiving, I'm sure you have a lot to be thankful for.
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