Lawyers work to set free U.S. 'enemy combatant'

Thursday, August 12, 2004

NORFOLK, Va. -- Lawyers for the government and for a U.S. citizen captured on the Afghanistan battlefield informed a federal judge Wednesday they are negotiating the man's release from federal custody.

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