Mahmoad Abdah, et al v. Barack Obama, et al, No. 10-5282 (D.C. Cir. 2011)
Annotate this CaseAppellant appealed a denial of his habeas corpus petition after he was captured by Northern Alliance forces in December 2001 and transferred to American custody in January of the following year and detained at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. At issue was whether the district court erred in finding that statements appellant made to American interrogators in Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay were voluntary and relying on those statements despite the government's failure to provide sufficient evidence corroborating their content. The court held that there was no need to consider these issues where the record contained sufficient facts, which were neither affected by the alleged coercion nor by the lack of corroboration, to support the district court's conclusion that appellant was "part of" al Qaeda at the time of his capture.
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