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Additional U.S. Military Justice Proceedings Against Service Members for Alleged Abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2005

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