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Justice and the Enemy

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by William Shawcross


  47 Peter Finn, “Guantanamo Bay Detainee Brought to U.S. for Trial,” Washington Post, June 10, 2009.

  48 Thomas Joscelyn, “Smearing America in Defense of a Terrorist: On the Anti-Americanism of Ghailani’s Pro Bono Counsel,” Weekly Standard, November 18, 2010, http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/smearing-america-defense-terrorist_518167.html?page=1.

  49 Benjamin Weiser, “Judge Bars Major Witness from Terrorism Trial,” New York Times, October 6, 2010.

  50 Ibid.

  51 Benjamin Weiser, “Report Shows Detainee’s Insight into Legal Process,” New York Times, September 26, 2010.

  52 Benjamin Weiser, “Ghailani’s Lawyers Detail Terror Defense Strategy,” New York Times, January 17 2011.

  53 Benjamin Weiser, “Trial Omitted Statements by Ghailani,” New York Times, November 17, 2010.

  54 Joscelyn, “Smearing America.”

  55 Ibid.

  56 Weiser, “Ghailani’s Lawyers.”

  57 Chad Bray, “Tanzanian Man Was Active Member of Bomb Plot, Prosecutor Says,” New York Times, November 8, 2010.

  58 Chad Bray and Evan Perez, “Man Convicted in ’98 Attacks,” New York Times, November 18, 2010.

  59 Thomas Joscelyn, “Holder’s Sham Trial,” Weekly Standard, November 29, 2010.

  60 Jocelyn, “Smearing America.”

  61 John Podhoretz, “Center for Constitutional Rights,” Commentary, November 18, 2010.

  62 Diane Marie Amann, “A Proper Conviction,” New York Times, November 18, 2010.

  63 Elise Cooper, “How the Feds Bungled the Ghailani Trial,” FrumForum, November 26, 2010, www.frumforum.com.

  64 “Bush AG Attorney General: Eric Holder Made ‘Wrong’ Decision,” Real Clear Politics, November 19, 2010.

  65 Benjamin Wittes, “Lawfare: Hard National Security Choices,” December 2, 2010, Lawfareblog.com.

  66 Personal conversation.

  67 Michael Walzer, “Symposium: The Killing of Bin Laden,” Dissent, May 10, 201 1.

  CHAPTER 7—VERDICTS

  1 Scott Shane, “U.S. Approves Targeted Killing of American Cleric,” New York Times, April 6, 2010.

  2 “Terrorists Believed to be Planning Attack in Berlin,” Der Spiegel, November 20, 2010, http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,730236,00.html.

  3 Andrew Lebovich, “The LWOT: AQAP Releases New ‘Inspire’ Magazine; Germany Attack Fears Intensify,” Foreign Policy, November 23, 2010.

  4 “Gordon Brown: 75% of UK Terror Plots Originate in Pakistan, Gaby Hinsliff in Islamabad,” The Guardian, December 14, 2008, guardian.co.uk.

  5 P. W. Singer, “We, Robot,” Slate, May 19, 2010.

  6 Ibid.

  7 Ibid.

  8 Laurie Goodstein, “A Nation Challenged: The American Muslims; Influential American Muslims Temper Their Tone,” New York Times, October 19, 2001, http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/19/us/nation-challenged-american-muslims-influential-american-muslims-temper-their.html?pagewanted=2&src=pm.

  9 “New Evidence suggests Radical Cleric Anwar al Awlaki Was an Overlooked Key Player in 9/11 Plot,” Fox News, May 20, 2011, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/05/20/new-evidence-suggests-radical-cleric-anwar-al-awlaki-overlooked-key-player-11/.

  10 Anwar al-Awlaki, Inspire magazine, January 2011.

  11 Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, “The Voice of Terror,” Foreign Policy, January 18, 2011, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/01/18/voice_of_terror.

  12 “Keynote Address at GEOINT Conference by Charles E. Allen, Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis/Chief Intelligence Officer,” Department of Homeland Security, October 28, 2008.

  13 Anwar Awlaki, interview on Al Jazeera, December 24, 2009.

  14 Thomas Joscelyn, CBS News, May 24, 2010.

  15 Lebovich, “The LWOT.”

  16 “44 Ways to Support Jihad,” February 5, 2009, www.nefafoundation.org.

  17 Meleagrou-Hitchens, “The Voice of Terror.”

  18 Inspire magazine, January 2011.

  19 Marc Thiessen, “Al Qaeda’s American Bred Leadership,” Washington Post, March 10, 2011, http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2011/03/al-qaedas_american-bred_leader.html.

  20 CSIS Report, “A Threat Transformed: Al Qaeda and Associated Movements in 2011,” 22–23.

  21 Editorial, “U.S. Approves Targeted Killing of American Cleric,” New York Times, April 6, 2010.

  22 David Sanderson, “BA Worker Jailed for 30 Years for Plotting to Blow Up Plane,” The Times (London), March 19, 2011.

  23 Ibid.

  24 Margaret Coker, “Al Qaeda in Yemen Publishes Attack Details,” Wall Street Journal, November 21, 2010.

  25 Lebovich, “The LWOT.”

  26 David J. Rusin, “Everybody Remember Molly Norris Day,” May 20, 2011, www.islamist-watch.org.

  27 Ibid.; and David J. Rusin, “On the Advice of the FBI, Cartoonist Molly Norris Disappears from View,” Seattle Weekly, September 15, 2010.

  28 Chris McGreal, “Prime Suspect in Cargo Plane Bomb Plot: Anwar al-Awlaki,” The Guardian, October 31, 2010, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/31/cargo-plane-bomb-suspect-anwar-al-awlaki.

  29 “Al-Awlaki urges American killings,” Al Jazeera, November 9, 2010. U.S.-born Islamic cleric Anwar al-Awlaki calls in a video message upon Muslims around the world to kill U.S. citizens.

  30 Lebovich, “The LWOT.”

  31 Benjamin Wittes, “Initial Thoughts on the ACLU-CCR Al-Aulaqi Brief,” October 9, 2010, Lawfareblog.com.

  32 Thomas Joscelyn, “Anwar al Awlaki’s License to Kill,” Weekly Standard, November 11, 2010.

  33 Ibid.

  34 Kenneth Anderson, “Judge Bates Dismisses Al-Aulaqi Case,” Opinio Juris, December 2010, opiniojuris.org.

  35 Barack Obama, “Speech on National Security and American Values,” May 21, 2009, http://www.dailykos.com/tv/w/001364/.

  36 “Obama Ratifies Bush—The Administration embraces military tribunals at Gitmo,” Wall Street Journal, March 8, 2011.

  37 Benjamin Wittes, “Time for Obama to Embrace Guantanamo,” January 21, 2011, Lawfareblog.com.

  38 Thomas Joscelyn, “Gitmo Recidivism Rate Soars,” Weekly Standard, December 7, 2010.

  39 Thomas Joscelyn, “State Department Designates Former Gitmo Detainee Turned AQAP Commander,” Long War Journal, June 16, 2011.

  40 Thomas Joscelyn, “John Brennan is Still Wrong on Gitmo Detainees,” Weekly Standard, May 13, 2011, http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/john-brennan-still-wrong-gitmo-detainee_560982.html?page=2.

  41 Joscelyn, “Gitmo Recidivism.”

  42 Thomas Joscelyn, “Ex Gitmo Detainee Training Libyan Rebels in Derna,” Long War Journal , April 2, 2011.

  43 Thomas Joscelyn, “Supreme Court Shuts Door on Gitmo Detainees’ Appeal,” Weekly Standard, April 19, 2011.

  44 Editorial, “A Right without a Remedy,” New York Times, February 28, 2011.

  45 Richard A. Serrano, “Obama to Resume Military Trials for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Detainees,” Los Angeles Times, March 8, 2011.

  46 Clive Stafford-Smith, “This Plan Just Perpetuates the Prisoners’ Legal Limbo,” Independent (London), March 9, 2010.

  47 Peter Finn and Anne E. Kornblut, “Obama Creates Indefinite Detention System for Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay,” Washington Post, March 8, 2011.

  48 “Guantanamo: The Prison That Won’t Go Away,” New York Times, March 8, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/opinion/09wed2.html.

  49 Dahlia Lithwick, “Cowardly, Stupid, and Tragically Wrong,” Slate, April 4, 2011.

  50 Editorial, “Is Obama a War Criminal Yet?,” Washington Times, March 8, 2011, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/mar/8/is-obama-a-war-criminal-yet/.

  51 Benjamin Wittes, “Is Guantanamo Just a Legacy Problem?,” December 27, 2010, Lawfareblog.com.

  52 Daniel Halper, “While Announcing KSM Decision, Holder Attacks Congress,” Weekly Standard, April 4, 2011.

  53 Peter Fedynsky, VOA News, April 15, 2011.

  CHAPTER 8—JUSTI
CE

  1 Bob Fertik, “Dick Cheney Had a Death Squad,” Democrats.com, March 9, 2011, www.democrats.com/dick-cheney-had-a-death-squad.

  2 Luiza Ch. Savage, “Did Torture Help the U.S. Find bin Laden?,” Macleans.ca, May 25, 2011.

  3 Ken Dilanian, “From Attorney General: McCain ‘Simply Incorrect’ on Interrogations That Led to Key Bin Laden Intelligence,” Los Angeles Times, May 12, 2011.

  4 John Yoo, “From Guantanamo to Abbottabad,” Wall Street Journal, May 4, 2011.

  5 Michael Hayden, “Birthers, Truthers, and Interrogation Deniers,” Wall Street Journal, June 2, 2011.

  6 Ibid.

  7 Ilya Somin, “Admiral Yamamoto and the Justification of Targeted Killing,” May 13, 2011, lawkipedia.com.

  8 Harold Koh, Opinio Juris, May 19, 2011, opiniojuris.org.

  9 Joe Coscarelli, “Noam Chomsky on Osama Bin Laden: George W. Bush’s Crimes ‘Vastly Exceed’ Bin Laden’s,” Village Voice blog, May 9, 2011.

  10 Judith Miller, Fox News, May 9, 2011.

  11 Gerald Steinberg, “Human Rights Watch Challenges bin Laden Killing: Odious Immoral Equivalence,” NGO Monitor, May 4, 2011.

  12 “Germany’s Moral Warriors,” Wall Street Journal online, May 6, 2011.

  13 Steven Erlanger, “In Europe, Disquiet over Bin Laden and U.S.” New York Times, May 5, 2011, www.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/world/europe/06europe.html?pagewanted=all.

  14 Robin Simcox, “Amnesty International is Keeping Dubious Company,” Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, May 16, 2011.

  15 Ibid.

  16 Christopher Hitchens, “Death of a Madman,” Slate, May 2, 2011, http://www.slate.com/id/2292687/.

  17 Michael Walzer, “Symposium: The Killing of bin Laden,” Dissent, May 10, 2011.

  18 Quoted by John Q. Barrett, Jackson List, May 3, 2011. Justice Jackson, speech to the American Society of International Law, April 13, 1945, www.roberthjackson.org/the-man/speeches-articles/speeches/speeches-by-robert-h-jackson/the-rule-of-law-among-nations/.

  EPILOGUE

  1 George Orwell, “Who Are the War Criminals,” Tribune, October 22, 1943, http://orwell.ru/library/articles/criminals/english/e_crime.

  2 Ibid.

  3 Lord Shawcross, GBE, QC, letter to Arthur Suzman, QC, Johannesburg, South Africa, May 3, 1977, 229.

  4 Ibid.

  5 John Yoo, War by Other Means (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006), 20.

  6 Gabriel Schoenfeld, “Legalism in Wartime,” National Affairs, No. 7, Spring 2011, www.na-tionalaffairs.com/authors/detail/gabriel-schoenfeld.

  7 Robert Chesney, “Consensus at the HASC Hearing on the Need for Flexibility?,” July 30, 2011, Lawfareblog.com.

  8 Jack Goldsmith, “Mark Martins to be Chief Prosecutor, Military Commissions,” June 23, 2011, Lawfareblog.com.

  9 Willy Stern, “Rebrander in Chief,” Weekly Standard, October 3, 2011.

  10 Benjamin Wittes, “The Next Step in Establishing the Legitimacy of Military Commissions,” July 1, 2011, Lawfareblog.com.

  11 Ibid.

  12 Michael Mukasey, “Testimony of Michael B. Mukasey in Front of the Senate Armed Services Committee,” July 26, 2011.

  13 Chesney, “Consensus at the HASC Hearing.”

  14 Ibid.

  15 Bill Roggio, “Pakistani Taliban Kidnap Young Girl to Turn Her Into a Suicide Bomber,” Long War Journal, June 20, 2011.

  16 Reinhold Niebuhr, The Irony of American History, (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1952); cited in Abe Greenwald, “What We Got Right in the War on Terror,” Commentary, September 2011.

  17 “Killing Awlaki,” Wall Street Journal, October 1, 2011.

  18 John Bellinger III, “Will Drone Strikes Become Obama’s Guantanamo?,” Washington Post, October 2, 2011.

  19 Keith Johnson, “Al Qaeda Remains Top Threat to U.S.,” New York Times, June 30, 2011.

  20 “U.S. Favorable Ratings Plummet Across the Arab World, a Zogby Poll,” Al Jazeerah, July 19, 2011, www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20Editorials/2011/July/18%20o/US%20Favorable%20Ratings%20Plummet%20Across%20the%20Arab%20World,%20a%20Zogby%20Poll.htm.

  21 Pascal Bruckner, The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010), op. cit., 218, 202.

  INDEX

  Abbottabad, Pakistan

  Abdel-Rahman, Omar

  Abdulmutallab, Umar Farouk

  al-Awlaki and

  rights

  treatment of

  at UCL

  Abu Faraj, al-Libi

  Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad

  Abu Ibrahim, al Almani

  Abu Musab, al-Suri

  ACLU. See American Civil Liberties Union

  Adams, John

  John Adams Project

  Adebe, Hussein

  Afghanistan

  Bagram detention center

  jihadism in

  U.S. war in

  Afghan-Soviet War

  Aggressive war

  as crime

  nature of

  Nazi leaders’ waging of

  See also Crimes against peace

  Ali, Muhammad

  Ali Hamadi, Mohammed

  Alibhai-Brown, Yasmin

  Allen, Charles

  Allies

  Nuremberg Tribunal framework and

  September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and support from

  Amann, Marie

  American Bar Association

  American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

  al-Awlaki and

  American embassy bombings

  Amnesty International

  Anti-Americanism

  Anti-Semitism

  AQAP. See Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

  Aqsa Mosque

  Arab culture, Islam and influence of

  Arab societies, governance of

  Arab Spring

  Arab Terrorism Convention

  See also Terrorism

  Arafat, Yasser

  Arendt, Hannah

  Army Field Manual

  Article 5, NATO’s

  Assange, Julian

  Attlee, Clement

  Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF)

  amending

  bin Laden’s killing and

  al-Awlaki, Anwar

  Abdulmutallab and

  ACLU and

  in Britain

  case against

  CCR and

  death of

  Hasan’s correspondence with

  human rights and

  images of Mohammed and

  influence of

  Inspire (magazine)

  Internet evangelism

  Karim and

  lone-wolf jihadists linked with

  targeted killing

  U.S. citizenship and

  video lectures

  in Yemen

  Axelrod, David

  al-Aziz Ali, Ali Abd

  Azzam, Abdullah

  jihadism and

  Bagram, Afghanistan detention center

  Bali, Indonesia nightclub bombing

  al-Banna, Hassan

  Bass, Gary

  Bates, John

  Bellinger, John

  Berlin Wall

  Bernstein, Robert

  Bethofi, Ayman

  Biddle, Francis

  Ex Parte Quirin and

  Biggar, Nigel

  Bin Attash, Walid

  bin Laden, Osama

  AUMF and

  intelligence leading to discovery of

  in jihadist movement

  Khomeini and

  killing of

  KSM and

  in Pakistan

  reactions to murder of

  search for

  September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and

  terrorist acts

  Wahhabist background of

  war declared on U.S. by

  WMDs and

  Binalshibh, Ramzi

  Bingham, Tom

  Birkett, Norman

  Black Septem
ber (terrorist group)

  Blair, Tony

  Bloomberg, Michael

  Bolden, Charles

  Bormann, Martin

  Boumediene, Lakhdar

  Boumediene v. Bush

  Brady v. Maryland

  Brennan, John

  Britain

  al-Awlaki in

  Islamist extremism in

  Muslims in

  objections to military tribunal for Nazi war criminals

  postwar general election

  British War Crimes executive

  Brown, Gordon

  Brown, Scott

  Bruckner, Pascal

  Burleigh, Michael

  Burlinghame, Charles

  Burlinghame, Debra

  Burundi

  Bush, George W.

  Boumediene v. Bush

  Common Article 3 and

  criticism of

  “Detention, Treatment, and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War Against Terrorism,”

  enhanced interrogation techniques approved by

  Geneva Conventions and

  Guantanamo detainees and

  Iraq occupation and

  KSM’s capture and

  Military Commissions Act

  military commissions and

  Obama and

  September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and

  War on Terror

  war paradigm

  Cageprisoners

  Caliphate, global

  Cambodia

  Khmer Rouge

  mass graves in

  Cameron, David

  Capitol, September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and

  Carter, Jimmy

  Case, George W., Jr.

  Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)

  al-Awlaki and

  drones and

  Ghailani trial and

  Cheney, Dick

  Chesney, Robert

  Chinese Uighurs

  Chomsky, Noam

  Choudhry, Roshonara

  Churchill, Winston

  justice for Nazi leaders and

  C.I.A.

  black sites

  enhanced interrogation technique memos

  CIPA. See Classified Information Procedure Act

  Citizenship

  “Detention, Treatment, and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War Against Terrorism” and

  U.S.

  Civilian populations

  Geneva Convention and

  lawfare and

  protection of

  Al Qaeda and violence against

  Classified Information Procedure Act (CIPA)

 

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