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    Case 3:14-cr-00140-HEH Document 129 Filed 07/13/15 Page 1 of 42 PageID# 1228

    IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE


    EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA
    Richmond Division

    UNITED STATES OF AMERICA


    V.

    Case No. 3:14CR140-HEH

    IREK ILGIZ HAMIDULLIN,

    a/k/a Irek Ilgiz Khamidullah,

    Defendant.

    JUL I 3 2015
    MEMORANDUM OPINION

    (Defendant's Motions to Dismiss the Indictment)

    OIRK, U.S. DISTRICT COURT


    RICHMOND. VA

    This case involves the detention and subsequent prosecution of Defendant Irek
    Ilgiz Hamidullin (the "Defendant") in the immediate aftermath of his participation in an
    armed attack on an Afghan Border Police compound in the Khost Province of

    Afghanistan on November 29, 2009. The case is presently before the Court on a number
    of challenges to its extraterritorial jurisdiction over the actions of the Defendant. Also at

    issue is whether, under the law of war, the Defendant is subject to prosecution as a
    combatant in a theater of war. Both the United States and the Defendant have submitted

    detailed memoranda supporting their respective positions, and the Court heard evidence

    and oral argument on June 17-18, 2015. While many of the principles governing the
    issues at hand have been well-developed in courts of the United States, their application
    to a group of insurgents purportedly affiliated with the Taliban is a venture into a new
    frontier.

    The complexity of the Court's analysis is compounded in two respects. First, the
    well of judicial authority applying the law of war to the conflict in Afghanistan and the

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