The Detention and Trial of Unlawful Combatants


 

Publication Date: January 2006

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): James Jay Carafano

Research Area: Law and ethics

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.