num_pages: 361
description: After the horrific terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 on New York, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania which resulted in the unprecedented destruction of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the murder of several thousand people from eighty-seven countries, President George W. Bush proclaimed a national emergency and issued an executive order which for the first time in United States history permits the government to hold and prosecute by military commission stateless members of a terrorist organization in an undeclared war.
language: English
title: Rule Of Law And The Law Of War: Military Commissions And Enemy Combatants Post 9/11
titlecomplete: Rule Of Law And The Law Of War: Military Commissions And Enemy Combatants Post 9/11 (Studies in Political Science)
publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr