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Legal Bid to Free Britons From Cuba
Wednesday, February 20, 2002
Telegraph

The action will be fought by a specially created legal team set up by Mr Ashcroft and led by American solicitor-general Ted Olsen, whose wife Barbara was on board the hijacked plane which crashed into the Pentagon on September 11.

A US judge is considering calls to free free two Britons detained after being captured in Afghanistan.

Lawyers for the families of Asif Iqbal, 20, and Shafiq Rasul, 24, have filed legal papers demanding the US brings charges or releases them. The men, both of Tipton, West Midlands, are being held at Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba, after being taken prisoner.

A writ of habeas corpus against American president George W Bush and attorney-general John Ashcroft was served at the United States District Court in Washington DC. The document alleges the executive order of November 13 "violates the US Constitution's guarantee of due process, to which any foreign nationals are entitled", according to the complaint.
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Dan