Enemy Combatant (book)

Enemy Combatant (book)

Enemy Combatant is the title of a book written by a British Muslim, Moazzam Begg, and co-written by Victoria Brittain, a former Associate Foreign Editor for the Guardian newspaper, about Begg's detention by the government of the United States of America in Camp Echo, Guantanamo Bay.cite news
author=Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
title=Review of "Enemy Combatant"
url=http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article353182.ece
publisher=The Independent
date=24 March 2006
accessdate=2007-02-23] He was seized in Islamabad in February 2002, and after prolonged sessions of interrogation, he was released from detention on January 25, 2005, without charge, compensation or an apology. Under current US law, no compensation is necessary for action taken under war powers act and, according to the Federalist Papers, the National Security is the utmost concern of the United States government.

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*Enemy combatant


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