| A judge may delay a hearing for a US citizen jailed without charge since his capture allegedly fighting with Taleban forces in Afghanistan, as prosecutors said Yasser Hamdi may soon go to Saudi Arabia. Prosecutors requested Thursday a seven-day delay for the hearing set for Monday in US District Court in Virginia, outside Washington, saying they were close to a deal with Hamdi's attorneys on his fate. Hamdi, who was born in Louisiana and raised in Saudi Arabia, was designated an "enemy combatant" and denied constitutional rights due a US citizen after US troops captured him in Afghanistan in 2001. Judge Robert Doumar was expected to issue a decision yesterday since the hearing is on Monday, a court spokesman said. The court has ordered that Hamdi, held in solitary confinement in a South Carolina naval brig, attend Monday's hearing. |