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Category: Crime, War & Conflict
The Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp was set up by the United States Government as a detention facility for ‘unlawful enemy combatants’ captured in the ‘war on terror’. Opened in 2002, it is located on the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the US, the Congress granted President Bush the authority to ‘use all necessary and appropriate force’ against those who committed the attacks. Two months later President Bush issued an executive order, which provided that any non-citizens believed to be involved in international terrorism could be held by the US military indefinitely. Under the terms of this order, these ‘unlawful enemy combatants’ would be tried by a military tribunal and that they would have no right of appeal to any courts – US, international or otherwise.
