One year after President Obama pledged to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, 200 detainees remain there. A new study finds judges using wildly different criteria to review the cases — the result of a lack of clear guidelines on issues such as the use of coercion — and how to define an enemy combatant.
enemy combatantTangle Of Detainee Rules Leads To Court ConfusionNPR Programs: Morning Edition Fri, 01/22/2010 - 7:00am
21 Year Old Guantanamo Detainee Released After 7 YearsDonklephant Fri, 06/12/2009 - 12:43am
That’s right. End result? No evidence could be found that he was an enemy combatant. After Mr Gharani was arrested at a mosque, his lawyer said he was accused by the US of being a member of al-Qaeda in 1998, when he would have been only 11. |
