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Hi, I read this blog occasionally and have been reading it (back) avidly recently. I respectfully wanted to bring this news item to your attention, because no matter how big it is (and it's big), I imagine it actually has a chance of being buried at the moment:

On the eve of the fourth anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks, the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that José Padilla, a suspected al-Qaeda operative who US officials say was planning to carry out a terrorist attack inside the US, could be detained as an “enemy combatant” without any review by US civilian courts.

The significance is that this deals with a US citizen who was arrested on US soil who is being detained indefinitely without a review by US civilian courts. This, I think, comes awfully close to being disappeared despite the visibility.

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