(Supreme)Court to hear U.S. citizens held in Iraq

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Source: AP

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to intervene in the cases of two naturalized U.S. citizens who want to stop American forces in Baghdad from turning them over to Iraqi authorities.

Mohammad Munaf faces a death sentence after a judge in the Central Criminal Court of Iraq found him guilty of kidnapping Romanian citizens. Munaf says he is innocent.

In the other case, Shawqi Omar was alleged to be harboring an Iraqi insurgent and four Jordanian Jihadist fighters when his Baghdad home was raided in 2004. He faces a trial in Iraqi courts and also proclaims his innocence. The raid by multinational forces targeted associates of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, at the time the al-Qaida leader in Iraq.

In the cases of Munaf and Omar, different U.S. courts gave conflicting interpretations of a 1948 ruling by the Supreme Court. The lower U.S. courts ruled against Munaf, but in favor of Omar.



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