Basic Documents about the Treatment of the Detainees at Guantánamo and Abu GhraibW. Frederick Zimmerman Nimble Books LLC, 2004 - 336 páginas Read This Book If: You are interested in understanding the treatment of detainees at Guantánamo Bay during the war on terror that began 9/11/2001 and the prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib following the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The book contains six basic substantive documents which provide essential information and context: * Major General Antonio M. Taguba's summary of his initial investigation of reported abuses at Abu Ghraib (the "Taguba Report"); * The Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War; * The Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War; * The opinions by the Supreme Court of the United States in Rasul v. Bush; * The opinions by the Supreme Court of the United States in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld; and * The opinions by the Supreme Court of the United States in Rumsfeld v. Padilla. Every citizen of the United States and the world should read these documents in their entirety. Every library should have a copy of this book. |
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... - Suspect d . Adel Nakhla , Civilian Translator , Titan Corp. , Assigned to the 205th MI Brigade- Suspect ( Names deleted ) 8. In addition , several detainees also described the following 9 BASIC DOCUMENTS ABOUT THE DETAINEES.
... - Suspect d . Adel Nakhla , Civilian Translator , Titan Corp. , Assigned to the 205th MI Brigade- Suspect ( Names deleted ) 8. In addition , several detainees also described the following 9 BASIC DOCUMENTS ABOUT THE DETAINEES.
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... civilian contract translator was questioned about several detainees accused of rape . He observed ( sic ) : " They ( detainees ) were all naked , a bunch of people from MI , the MP were there that night and the inmates were ordered by ...
... civilian contract translator was questioned about several detainees accused of rape . He observed ( sic ) : " They ( detainees ) were all naked , a bunch of people from MI , the MP were there that night and the inmates were ordered by ...
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... Civilian Internees , and Other Detainees , and AR 190-8 . 3. That a single commander in CJTF - 7 be responsible for overall detainee operations throughout the Iraq Theater of Operations . I also recommend that the Provost Marshal ...
... Civilian Internees , and Other Detainees , and AR 190-8 . 3. That a single commander in CJTF - 7 be responsible for overall detainee operations throughout the Iraq Theater of Operations . I also recommend that the Provost Marshal ...
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... Civilian Detainees , and Other Detainees , as well as Iraqi criminal prisoners . ( ANNEX 22 ) 7. The accountability for detainees is doctrinally an MP task IAW FM 3-19.40 . ( ANNEX 22 ) 8. There is a general lack of knowledge ...
... Civilian Detainees , and Other Detainees , as well as Iraqi criminal prisoners . ( ANNEX 22 ) 7. The accountability for detainees is doctrinally an MP task IAW FM 3-19.40 . ( ANNEX 22 ) 8. There is a general lack of knowledge ...
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... civilian corrections experience . ( Annex 21 ) 21. Soldiers were poorly prepared and untrained to conduct l / R operations prior to deployment , at the mobilization site , upon arrival in theater , and throughout their mission ...
... civilian corrections experience . ( Annex 21 ) 21. Soldiers were poorly prepared and untrained to conduct l / R operations prior to deployment , at the mobilization site , upon arrival in theater , and throughout their mission ...
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320th MP Battalion 372nd MP Company 800th MP Brigade Abu Ghraib BCCF acts Ahrens al Qaeda aliens alleged ANNEX apply armed forces Article BG Karpinski Braden Camp Bucca challenge Cite citizen civilian Commander conflict Congress Constitution Court of Appeals criminal Detaining Power detention facilities disciplinary punishment dissenting District Court due process Eisentrager enemy combatant ensure escape Ex parte Endo Ex parte Quirin Executive federal filed Geneva Convention Government Government's Guantanamo Bay habeas corpus habeas petition habeas statute Hamdi held High Contracting Parties hostilities immediate custodian rule imprisonment International Committee internees interrogation judicial Military Police Milligan necessary Occupying Power operations Opinion of O'CONNOR Padilla petitioners place of internment present Convention President prisoners of war proper respondent protected persons Protecting Power RASUL repatriation require RUMSFELD RUMSFELD Opinion Soldiers Southern District statutory supra Taliban territorial jurisdiction tion United writ of habeas YASER ESAM HAMDI
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Página 40 - Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause...
Página 227 - ... [T]he very nature of executive decisions as to foreign policy is political, not judicial. Such decisions are wholly confided by our Constitution to the political departments of the government, Executive and Legislative. They are delicate, complex, and involve large elements of prophecy. They are and should be undertaken only by those directly responsible to the people whose welfare they advance or imperil. They are decisions of a kind for which the Judiciary has neither aptitude, facilities nor...
Página 191 - Should any doubt arise as to whether persons, having committed a belligerent act and having fallen into the hands of the enemy, belong to any of the categories enumerated in Article 4, such persons shall enjoy the protection of the present Convention until such time as their status has been determined by a competent tribunal.
Página 87 - ... Contracting Party shall be under the obligation to search for persons alleged to have committed, or to have ordered to be committed, such grave breaches, and shall bring such persons, regardless of their nationality, before its own courts. It may also, if it prefers, and in accordance with the provisions of its own legislation, hand such persons over for trial to another High Contracting Party concerned, provided such High Contracting Party has made out a prima facie case.
Página 183 - No citizen shall be imprisoned or otherwise detained by the United States except pursuant to an Act of Congress.
Página 171 - It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defense, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties — the freedom of association — which makes the defense of the Nation worthwhile.
Página 224 - These powers ought to exist without limitation, because it is impossible to foresee or define the extent and variety of national exigencies, or the correspondent extent and variety of the means which may be necessary to satisfy them.
Página 210 - It can serve no useful purpose to inquire what those laws and usages are, whence they originated, where found, and on whom they operate; they can never be applied to citizens in States which have upheld the authority of the government, and where the courts are open and their process unobstructed.
Página 186 - This policy of supplying, by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, private as well as public. We see it particularly displayed in all the subordinate distributions of power ; where the constant aim is, to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that each may be a check on the other ; that the private interest of every individual may be a sentinel over the public rights.