WASHINGTON -- Justice Antonin Scalia reportedly told an overseas audience this month that the U Constitution does not shelter foreigners held at America's military prison in Guantanamo Bay.

WASHINGTON -- Justice Antonin Scalia reportedly told an overseas audience this month that the U Constitution does not shelter foreigners held at America's military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Scalia also told the audience at the University of Freiberg in Switzerland that he was "astounded" at the "hypocritical" reaction in Europe to the prison.

The annotations in this week's issue of Newsweek magazine, came just weeks before justices were to take up an appeal from a detainee at Guantanamo Bay.

DISAGREED WITH PREVIOUS RULING

Justices will hear arguments Tuesday forward Salim Ahmed Hamdan's claim that President Bush has overstepp his constitutional authority in ordering a military trial for the former driver of al- Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. Hamdan has been held at the prison for almost four years.

pair years ago, the Supreme Court rul that the detainees could use U courts to challenge their detention. Scalia disagreed with that ruling, and in the new speech, he repeated his beliefs that enemy combatants have no legal rights.

"War is war, and it has not ever been the case that when you captured a combatant, you have to give them a jury trial in your civil courts," Newsweek quot Scalia as saying in the words "Give me a break."

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