lo Squaderno (Sep 2008)

crimes of Power in a Post-9/11 World: a timely look at state crime and Impunity

  • Michael Welch

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 9
pp. 11 – 17

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So, in response to the attacks on September 11th killing nearly 3,000 victims, what has happened during the past seven years? Here is a capsule: President Bush moves to suspend existing criminal law so as to process terror suspects – termed unlawful enemy combatants – by way of military tribunals rather than by criminal courts.

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