Foreword
Shortly after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush authorized the detention of noncitizens suspected of having ties to al Qaeda and the Taliban at the U.S. Naval Station in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Since then, some 500 men have been held at the facility and 256 others have been released, 76 to the custody of their home countries.The detention center has become a flashpoint for international controversy because of the U.S. Defense Department’s determination to hold the detainees as "enemy combatants." Under the Geneva Conventions — a legal regime for the treatment of detainees in armed conflict,…
