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Title: Detainees and prisoners of war in Guantanamo and Iraq
Authors: Shaltut, Adel E. (2004)
Keywords: Human rights
Prisoners -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Guatemala
Prisoners -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Iraq
Humanitarian law
Issue Date: 2004
Citation: Shaltut, A. E. (2004). Detainees and prisoners of war in Guantanamo and Iraq (Master’s dissertation).
Abstract: On September 11 2001, thousands of people were killed or injured because of a horrifying series of attacks that targeted the World Trade Centre (WTC) and the Pentagon in New York and Washington. On that day both towers of the WTC collapsed after two hijacked passenger airliners flew into them. The Pentagon was also partly destroyed by another hijacked plane. Shortly then one more plane crashed and all its passengers were killed. Fingers of accusation were directed to the Afghanistan-based Al Qaeda1 Organisation led by Osama bin Laden, and the Taliban fighters. In retaliation, the US administration launched the war on Afghanistan with the aim of capturing members of Al Qaeda and Taliban. The war started on 7 October 2001 .The Bush administration has classified the men captured in Afghanistan as unlawful combatants but not prisoners of war (POW). The US held those captured in an American military base at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In a similar event but under the pretext of the threat of possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), the U.S declared the war on Iraq and on 9 April 2003, the Iraqi capital Baghdad was under the control of the American tanks. Many Iraqis were captured and held in prisons inside Iraq, and in December 2003, former President Saddam Hussein was captured as well. "He was caught liken rat". " Without firing a single shot, US forces captured Saddam Hussein as he hid in the bottom of a hole at a farmhouse near Tikrit".
Description: M.A.HUMAN RIGHTS&DEM.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/77091
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