The article is about how the US Congress should establish clear standards and procedures for the designation of enemy combatants and their treatment for US citizens. The government cannot abuse the po...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
ISRAEL'S EXAMPLE (The Washington Post, Washington)
NO ONE would say that Israel is soft on terrorism, which makes
it all the more fascina...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
STUCK IN GUANTANAMO (The Washington Post, Washington)
THE BUSH administration's chronically failing attempt to invent
a new legal system ...
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Brussels (dpa) - European governments have failed to come up with
alternatives for dealing with terrorist suspects held in the United
States prison camp Guantanamo, a top US...
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Washington (dpa) - A US military judged dropped terrorism charges
against a young Canadian imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying
his case did not fall under the authori...
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Legal experts criticized the Bush administration Wednesday for barring the news media from military hearings that begin this week for 14 terror suspects in Guantanamo Bay.The detainees include Khal...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
GITMO: A NATIONAL DISGRACE (The New York Times, New York)
Ever since President Bush rammed the Military Commissions Act of
2006 through C...
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While the White House weighed closing the Guantanamo Bay prison, Congress pushed ahead Tuesday with a heated debate over whether detained terror suspects were entitled to petition U.S. courts to ch...
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MIAMI (Reuters) - A civilian lawyer for the only
Canadian terrorism suspect held at Guantanamo said Wednesday
he had been barred from his client's hearing at the U.S. base
next week because of a d...
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GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - A
U.S. military judge who in June dismissed war crimes charges
against a young Canadian prisoner at Guantanamo said
Thursday he was criticized by t...
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GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - An
Army major Thursday offered the first testimony in a U.S.
military war crimes proceeding since the end of World War Two,
describing the capture ...
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Times article "Legal Group Opposes Enemy Combatant Policy"
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