Outstanding Habeas Petition
Salah al-Salami and fellow Saudi Yassar Talal al-Zahrani had habeas corpus petitions filed on their behalf, prior to their deaths. In December 2009 the Obama Presidency argued that the their petitions should be quashed, because their CSR Tribunals had determined that they were "enemy combatants". Talal al-Zahrani's father countered: "It doesn't really matter if this was an intentional death or an accidental death or suicide. The point is that the U.S. government bears responsibility."
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