ENEMY COMBAT

Analysis of Begg's Varied Sentiments

Analysis of Begg's Varied Sentiments

Introduction

U.S. President Barack Obama from his predecessor creates the terror suspects for introduction of the term "enemy combatant". Bush had to justify the detention of suspects in Guantanamo and their limited access to the courts in the United States. Human rights groups criticized the new rules as not going far enough.As the Washington Department of Justice said at the weekend, it will not use the term "enemy combatant" for more use. The Bush administration has imprisoned at Guantanamo and other prisons terror suspects, after the attacks of 11 September 2001 and detained as "enemy combatants" have been classified. So give them the rights of prisoners of war under the Geneva Convention have been denied. Prisoners of war shall not thereafter regard as criminals must be treated humanely and released when the conflict has ended.

A federal court had asked the new government with a deadline of Friday, a judicial declaration on the legal basis for detention in Guantanamo. The new rules now correspond to international law, says Attorney General Eric Holder. Unlike under Bush the detention of terrorist suspects should in the future not more on the war's authorization of the President base. The authority now out by Congress and governed by international law. When the new policy for dealing with prisoners' is vital that we strengthen national security, but remain consistent with values and the law. Barack Obama wants to close the camp by no later than January 2010. Currently sitting there for another about 245 suspects.

Discussion

Background of the Book “Enemy Combatant”

Moazzam Begg was one of nine British detainees at the Guantanamo camp. He was imprisoned for a crime he never committed and whose nature has never been determined. After the feverish days following the attacks of September 11, 2001, while temporarily in Pakistan, he was arrested and spent three years in prison, most of the time alone. After witnessing the torture and deaths of two prisoners, he was released in 2005 without explanation or apology. "Enemy combatant" is an extraordinary and moving story.

Varied Sentiments of Begg about US

Moazzam Beggseized from a house in Islamabad in the middle of the night. Before reaching his destination, he was able to call his father in England on his cell phone and tell him he had been taken by Americans and placed in the trunk of a car. Beggwas taken to Bagram, where he spent a year, and finally to Gitmo. He spent three years at Guantanamo as "enemy combatant" and he saw comrades being killed. It does not seek revenge. They came home at midnight-it's classic - but it was not a routine police raid. The armed men who stood on the landing of Moazzam Begg were not wearing uniforms (10: 4). Without a word, they have thrown down the British aid worker and tied his arms and legs in the back. Before they put a hood over his head, he could see some of them head for the room to sleep ...