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摘要

To the relief of many of America's allies, not least Tony Blair, the Supreme Court announced on November loth that it would consider the fate of the 660 foreign "enemy combatants" held at the American naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Some have been there for nearly two years without being charged and without any access to lawyers. The appeal had been filed on behalf of 12 Kuwaitis, two Britons and two Australians, who are demanding the right for their cases to be heard by proper American courts, as opposed to the military tribunals the Pentagon is supposed to be arranging for them.