U.S. Likely to release 'Enemy Combatant' Hamdi - No Case Against Him.
/The Justice Department's announcement that it may
soon free Yaser Esam Hamdi, an American citizen captured in Afghanistan
and held as an enemy combatant for nearly three years, signals an end
to one of the longest and most important legal struggles to result from
the Bush administration's war on terrorism, administration officials
acknowledged Thursday. A lawyer for Mr. Hamdi, Frank W. Dunham Jr.,
said in an interview that he was convinced that the administration was
"committed to this man's release rather than litigation" in lower
courts, and that Mr. Hamdi might return shortly to Saudi Arabia, where
he was raised. Department officials, speaking on condition of anonymity
because of the continuing negotiations, said that a decision to release
him would show only that the government had reached the end of a
process of interrogations that determined that Mr. Hamdi had no
additional intelligence information to provide to the United States and
that he posed no threat. [more 
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