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Australian Detainee Pleads Guilty in First Guantánamo Conviction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2007

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1 The new, 238-page Manual for Military Commissions is available at <http://www.defenselink.mil/news/d20070118MCM.pdf=.

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