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...innocence of Guantanamo’s inmates. Terrorists must be brought to justice, but before a suspect is deemed a terrorist and imprisoned indefinitely, he must be given access to a trial in order to satisfy the Geneva Convention and the Supreme Court’s June 2004 decision Rasul v. Bush. Complicating matters further are allegations of prisoner torture at Guantanamo. Rumsfeld and other officials have acknowledged that forceful interrogation and force-feeding of detainees, which many human rights activists consider torture, have occurred at Guantanamo. Meanwhile, Amnesty International issued a report last May that was sharply critical...
...first glance, that last sentence might seem like a factual error, as well as an editorial oversight—after all, the high court upheld the right of enemy combatants to challenge their detentions in the Hamdi and Rasul rulings. But bear with me. This review is not about the Taliban fighters on Guantánamo now, but about the Haitian refugees who were the naval base’s unwilling tenants...
...agreement, and al-Jaafari, who is also Shi'ite but of another party, can do nothing to get rid of him. Jabr has denied allegations that militiamen have been using the Iraqi police to launch a campaign of terrorism against Sunnis. "I swear on the name of God," Abu Rasul al-Shebani, spokesman for the Badr Corps, told TIME, "nobody in the Badr Corps is in the Ministry of the Interior...
Last week, the Supreme Court made a bold move by agreeing to hear two cases brought by such prisoners. The Court will have the opportunity to set an extremely important legal precedent regarding the treatment of enemy combatants, who are protected by the Geneva Convention. In Rasul v. Bush and al Odah v. U.S., the Supreme Court must take a firm stance to ensure that our government lives up to the high standards of moral and legal behavior it claims to have. We urge the justices to look beyond White House and Justice Department manipulations and allow the prisoners...
...cases before the court involve the legality of the United States’ creation of an extrajudicial system in Cuba. U.S. Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson provided the main tenets of the government’s position in the Rasul case. According to his brief, the prisoners should not be considered prisoners of war. This argument is dubious at best. These prisoners—most allegedly linked in some way to Taliban forces—ought to be classified as POWs and afforded the rights called for by the Geneva Convention...