Yaser Esam Hamdi(L), a U.S. citizen captured during the war in Afghanistan (news - web sites) and detained for more than two years without charges saw a lawyer for the first time on February 3, 2004 in a meeting closely monitored by his military guards. Frank Dunham, a federal public defender, said he spent about an hour with Hamdi inside a South Carolina navy base, but could not disclose what his client said since everything Hamdi says is classified. Hamdi is led away by a Northern Alliance soldier after his capture during a prison uprising near Mazar-i-Sharif December 1, 2001. Photo by Reuters