d U S District Judge Joyce Hens Green said the reviews designed to determine their status are so stacked against them that their findings can not be trusted Green criticized the military for using what she called an illogically broad definition of enemy combatant in deciding to hold Muslim men from dozens of countries for as long as three years She said in many cases people were detained simply for being alleged members of groups that do not like Americans Green quoted extensively from the tribunal proceeding against Mustafa Ait Idir 34 an Algerian living in Bosnia who was accused of plotting with others to blow up a U S embassy there Idir noted that a Bosnian court found no evidence against him and repeatedly but unsuccessfully asked tribunal officials to present their evidence that he was an al Qaeda fighter He argued he could not prove a negative and that he would hit a person who claimed he was a terrorist in the face which prompted the tribunal members to laugh The exchange might have been truly humorous had the consequences of the detainee s enemy combatant status not been so terribly serious and had the detainee s criticism of the process not been so piercingly accurate the judge wrote