The US Court of Appeals for the District of Colombia Circuit dismissed a former Guantanamo detainee’s lawsuit against former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, according to a story at JURIST.
The original complaint listed the plaintiff as Sami Abdulaziz Allaithi, an Egyptian professor who was teaching English in Kabul, Afghanistan. After US bombing campaigns began in Afghanistan, Allaithi left Afghanistan for Pakistan, but he was captured there, and then transferred to Guantanamo Bay.
; via Jurist
The case was agrgued by Russell P. Cohen, with Howard M. Ullman and Shayana D. Kadidal.
For the appellees were Sydney Foster, U.S. Department of Justice,Attorney, with Stuart F. Delery, Assistant Attorney General, and Matthew M. Collette , Attorney. Sharon Swingle, Attorney, entered an appearance.
