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The Detention and Trial of Unlawful Combatants
Publication Date: January 2006
Publisher(s): Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): James Jay Carafano
Topic: Law and ethics (International law)
Keywords: National security; unlawful; trial
Type: Report
Abstract:
In the wake of the Supreme Court's Hamdan v. Rumsfeld decision, the U.S. should focus on providing a legal process that does not treat unlawful combatants as regular criminals or traditional prisoners of war.