1.   A second man claiming U.S. citizenship, Yasser Esam Hamdi, is also being held by the military as an enemy combatant.

2.   But now it argues that his citizenship is irrelevant, that he is an enemy combatant and does not deserve the legal protections most Americans enjoy.

3.   Hamdi remains classified as a captured enemy combatant and in the custody of the Department of Defense, the Pentagon said.

4.   He is being held in Charleston as an enemy combatant.

5.   He added that he knew of no previous cases that said it was wrong to interrogate an enemy combatant who had been captured on the battlefield.

6.   He now is being held in a military brig in Norfolk, Va., as an enemy combatant.

7.   In his ruling, however, Matz noted that the detainees were aliens and enemy combatants who were captured abroad and remained abroad.

8.   McNulty said that the courts had no business interfering with the decision of the military and the president regarding enemy combatants.

9.   Officials have justified his detention by saying he is considered to be an enemy combatant.

10.   Since then, he has not been charged with any crime and has not been allowed to see a lawyer on the grounds that he is an enemy combatant.