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Civil Rights

Sep. 11, 2002

Detentions Trouble Experts of All Persuasions

WASHINGTON - While the hours that followed the al-Qaida attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., resonated with a simple understanding that a fight had begun between good and evil, the year since has obscured such definition - with lines blurring between civil libertarians and staunch conservatives, immigrants and enemy combatants, and pragmatism and principle.

By James Gordon Meek
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        WASHINGTON - While the hours that followed the al-Qaida attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., resonated with a simple understan...

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