By Charlie Savage  Feb 21, 2009

The Obama administration has told a federal judge that military detainees in Afghanistan have no legal right to challenge their imprisonment there, embracing a key argument of former PresidentBush's legal team.

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The Supreme Court rejected the Bush administration's legal view for prisoners held at Guantánamo in landmark rulings in 2004 and 2006.

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Rights lawyers have been hoping that courts would extend those rulings to allow long-term detainees being held at United States military bases elsewhere in the world to sue for release, too. There are about 600 detainees at Bagram and several thousand in Iraq.

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