Hamdi,YasserEsam

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Esam Hamdi was the second arrested "american Taliban", which was finally confirmed in April 2002. The detainee's parents were Saudi nationals employed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where Hamdi was born, some officials said. The family moved back to Saudi Arabia when the detainee was a toddler. Hamdi was captured after a November 2001 prison uprising in the northern Afghanistan city of Mazar-e-Sharif. Hamdi was among the 300 suspected Taliban or al-Qaida members being held at Guantanamo Bay. In January 2003, a federal appeals court ruled the government can hold U.S. citizens as enemy combatants during wartime without the constitutional protections afforded Americans in criminal prosecutions. "In overturning a lower-court ruling, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., said the status of 22-year-old Yaser Esam Hamdi as a citizen did not change the fact he was captured in Afghanistan while fighting alongside Taliban and al Qaeda fighters." http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/28089.htm