A sickly 75.5-pound Guantánamo hunger striker may be entitled to a medical panel review on whether he’s so sick he should be released, a federal judge said Thursday, advising lawyers to ask the Pentagon for the review before the court will intervene in the case.

Lawyers for Tariq Ba Odah wanted U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan to order the Obama administration to release the Yemeni under Army and Geneva Conventions guidelines for gravely ill prisoners of war. Ba Odah, in his mid-30s, has been at Guantánamo since 2002, on a hunger strike since 2007 and approved for release with security assurances since 2010. ...

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