Senior Judge Harry Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit was on a panel Tuesday that unanimously rejected a Guantánamo Bay detainee's petition for release from custody. But that doesn't mean the judge liked it.
Edwards, writing separately but agreeing with the outcome, said the detainee should be freed—"but his claim is doomed to fail because of the vagaries of the law." The prisoner, Abdul Al Qader Ahmed Hussain, was a teenager was he was taken into custody in Afghanistan and transferred to Guantánamo. He has been confined there for eleven years.
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