US judges say Gauntanamo detainee should be freed

WASHINGTON (AP) - A U.S. appeals court said Monday that a Chinese Muslim being held at Guantanamo Bay deserved a new hearing or should be released because the evidence against him came from a dubious source.
The court reviewing evidence in the case compared a Bush administration legal argument to one made by a hapless,
dimwitted character in a 19th century nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll.
The court vcited the 1876 poem, «The Hunting of the Snark,» in ruling that the military improperly labeled Huzaifa Parhat as an enemy combatant. The ruling was issued last week but an unclassified version of the opinion was released only Monday.
It was the first time a court has reviewed the military's decision-making and considered whether a detainee should be held.
The court said military review panels were unable to assess much of the evidence against the detainee, Huzaifa Parhat, and at times treated accusations as evidence.
Parhat is one of a group of Turkic-speaking Chinese Muslims, known as Uighurs, being held at Guantanamo Bay. Their case has become a diplomatic and legal headache for the U.S., which has tried to find a country willing to accept the Uighurs even as it defended its decision to hold them as enemy combatants.

US judges say Gauntanamo detainee should be freed....