Detainee can be sent back to Libya
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From Times Wire Reports
The Supreme Court refused to stop the Bush administration from transferring a Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainee to his home country of Libya.
Lawyers for the man argued that he faced torture at the hands of the Libyan government if sent there. Abu Abdul Rauf Zalita says he married an Afghan citizen and that after the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, he and his pregnant wife fled to Pakistan, where he was handed over to U.S. authorities for a bounty.
The U.S. government classified him as an enemy combatant.
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