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U.S. Nationals Detained as Unlawful Combatants

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 2003

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References

1 See Murphy, Sean D., Contemporary Practice of the United States, 96 AJIL 981 (2002)Google ScholarPubMed.

2 See 28 U.S.C. §2241 (2000).

3 Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 296 F.3d 278, 283 (4th Cir. 2002).

4 U.S. Motion to Dismiss, Declaration of Michael H. Mobbs at para. 1, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 2003 WL 60109 (4 th Cir. Jan. 8, 2003) (No. 02-7338) (on file at GWU).

5 Id., para. 6.

6 See Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 2003 WL 60109, at *4.

7 Id. at *4-6.

8 See 18 U.S.C. §4001 (a) (2000).

9 2003 WL 60109, at *9-10.

10 Authorization for Use of Military Force, Pub. L. No. 107-40, 115 Stat. 224 (2001).

11 Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, Aug. 12, 1949, Art. 5, 6 UST 3316, 75 UNTS 135.

12 2003 WL 60109, at *10-11.

13 Id. at *15.

14 Id. (citation omitted).

15 Memorandum from President George W. Bush to the Secretary of Defense (June 9, 2002) (on file at GWU).

16 U.S. Motion to Dismiss, Declaration of Michael H. Mobbs at paras. 4-5, Padilla v. Bush, 2002 WL 31718308 (S.D.N.Y. Dec. 4, 2002) (No. 02 Civ. 4445 (MBM)) (on file at GWU).

17 Id., para. 8.

18 Letter from Daniel J. Bryant, Assistant Attorney General, to Senator Carl Levin, Chairman of the Committee on the Armed Services, at A-1 to A-5 (Nov. 26, 2002) (on file at GWU) (citation omitted).

19 Padilla v. Bush, 2002 WL 31718308, at *20 (S.D.N.Y. Dec. 4, 2002).

20 Id. at *30.

21 Id. at *20.

22 Id. at *30-36.

23 See All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. §1651 (2000). For an American Bar Association report on the legal framework for enemy combatants and their right to access to counsel, see ABA Task Force on Treatment of Enemy Combatants, Report to the House of Delegates (Feb. 2003), at <http://www.abanet.org/leadership/recommendations03/109.pdf>.