Hamdan v. Rumsfeld/Related Articles

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Afghanistan War (2001-2021) [r]: Beginning on October 7, 2001, in response to the 9-11 attack, military operations against the Taliban and al-Qaeda by United States and NATO forces ^[e]
Supreme Court of the United States of America [r]: Add brief definition or description
Lawful combatant [r]: A person who meets the qualifications of the Geneva Conventions to be entitled to prisoner of war status ^[e]

Salim Ahmed Hamdan [r]: Petitioner in the case of Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, an Yemenite citizen captured by Afghan militias in the Afghanistan War (2001-2021), turned over to U.S. troops, and whom the George W. Bush Administration wanted to try for war crimes by a military commission ^[e]

Detainee Treatment Act [r]: A 2005 Congressional act specifying explicit standards for prisoners in the custody of the U.S. military ^[e]
Ex parte Quirin [r]: A 1942 Supreme Court of the United States ruling that affirmed the right to try captured enemy personnel, who operated in civilian clothing, by a Presidentially appointed secret military tribunal ^[e]
Guantanamo Bay detention camp [r]: Add brief definition or description
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld [r]: A 2004 opinion by the Supreme Court of the United States, which held that a U.S. citizen, captured in a combat zone and alleged to be bearing arms against the United States, still was entitled to a judicial hearing to determine if he was an enemy combatant subject to military, rather than civilian, law ^[e]
Posse Comitatus Act [r]: U.S. law, enacted in 1878 during Reconstruction, which forbids the use of U.S. Army forces for civilian law enforcement; it does not prohibit their use in disaster relief defined by the Stafford Act, or in situations of martial law; the greatest controversies surround the role of military forces in dealing with terrorism on U.S. soil ^[e]
Yemen [r]: A Middle Eastern country with a coast on the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, and land borders with Saudi Arabia and Oman. ^[e]