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U.S. Department of Defense Rules on Military Commissions

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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American Journal of International Law , Volume 96 , Issue 3 , July 2002 , pp. 731 - 734
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2002

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References

1 Military Order of November 13, 2001: Detention, Treatment, and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War Against Terrorism, 66 Fed. Reg. 57,833 (Nov. 16, 2001), reprinted in 41ILM 252 (2002). For background, see Sean D. Murphy, Contemporary Practice of the United States, 96 AJIL 237, 253-55 (2002); for analysis, see Agora: Military Commissions, 96 AJIL 320 (2002).

2 See U.S. Department of Defense, Military Commission Order No. 1 (Mar. 21, 2002), 41 ILM 725 (2002), at <http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar2002/d20020321ord.pdf>.

3 Id., para. 3(B).

4 Id., para. 2.

5 Id., para. 4(A) (l)-(3).

6 Id., para. 4(A)(4).

7 Id., para. 4(B), (C).

8 Id., para. 4(C)(3).

9 Id., para. 6(A).

10 Id., para. 6(B)(2).

11 Id., para. 6(B)(3).

12 Id., para. 6(D)(1).

13 Id., para. 6(D)(2).

14 Id., para. 6(D)(3), (5).

15 Id., para. 6(F).

16 Id., para. 6(H)(2).

17 Id., para. 6(F), (G).

18 Id., para. 6(H)(4); see 10 U.S.C. §603 (2001).

19 Military Commission Order No. 1, supra note 2, para. 6(H) (5), (6).

20 Id., para. 5.

21 See Katharine Q. Seelye, Pentagon Says Acquittals May Not Free Detainees, N.Y. TIMES, Mar. 22, 2002, at A13.

22 See John Mintz, Tribunal Rules Aim to Shield Witnesses, WASH. POST, Mar. 22, 2002, at Al.

23 [Editor's Note: Dec. 16, 1966, 999 UNTS 171.]

24 Amnesty International, Memorandum to the US Government on the Rights of People in US Custody in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay 51-53 (Apr. 2002), at <http://www.amnesty.org> (footnotes omitted).

25 Id. at 56.