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“The restrictions imposed on our client are excessive and unnecessary, and therefore we seek the intervention of the federal court,” said defense attorney Gail Johnson

Lift all restrictions, put him in genpop. Problem solved.

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enemy combatant AFAIK. Rights?

If he's a prisoner of war, if his actions were an act of war, he hasn't committed a crime... Or if he has it was a war crime and he should have been tried by a court martial under the laws of his home country not in a civilian court under US laws. Waging war is itself not a crime.

If he's an enemy combatant by trying him in a civilian court and holding him in a civilian prison WE are committing a war crime. Enemy prisoners of war are only held in conditions that prevent their escape and prevent them from further assisting their side's war effort.

I think we're better off saying he's a civilian who committed a crime, rather than an enemy soldier.