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The Weekend Read: Bronwyn Adcock on a terror suspect held for almost 20 years without trial

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'Guantanimo Bay'

The alternate legal universe that exists in guantanimo bay was created in november two thousand and one. When president bush issued a military order governing how the united states would treat the foreign national its scooped up in its war on terror, they artificially created a category of people that weren't due legal protections. American journalist carroll rosenberg has been covering guantAnimo bay for 20 years. She witnessed the first plan load of detainees arrive in january two thousand and two and watched as the military commissions evolve to deal with the unique challenge posed by the c a a's black sight detainees.

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