I’ve posted many times on the gradual but inexorable process through which the United States is closing out its detention operations in Afghanistan, including this recent update. It has been a bumpy road, and after President Karzai recently suggested that … Read more »
The meeting between Presidents Obama and Karzai today appears to have produced an agreement that will revive the process of shutting down U.S. detention operations in Afghanistan. As reported in the Wall Street Journal:
With Mr. Obama at his side,
A few weeks ago, I noted a post by Chris Jenks arguing that negotiations for a US-Afghanistan security agreement might come to grief over the issue of criminal jurisdiction over U.S. servicemembers (much as happened previously vis-a-vis Iraq). On that … Read more »
A few years ago I wrote a paper about the cycle of detention law and policy over time in Iraq, and among other conclusions I observed that the sustainability of overseas, US-administered detention facilities established in the context of a … Read more »
The New York Times has this piece about continuing U.S. government efforts to transfer detention operations in Afghanistan to Afghan government control. The piece does a good job of outlining the many obstacles — political, operational, legal, diplomatic, technical, and … Read more »
At one point prior to 2009, [Update: In my haste this morning, I erred by referring to 100,000 detainees in Iraq at a single point in time, when instead I meant to refer to the volume of detainees we … Read more »
The armed conflict in Libya began as a non-international armed conflict, but was internationalized when a host of states intervened against the Libyan government. Now, the United States has joined a growing list of states recognizing the rebels as the … Read more »
The last time we covered the progress of the case that I’ll call Al Maqaleh v. Obama II (to distinguish from the first time this case was considered in 2008-2010, Al Maqaleh I), Judge Bates had just granted the … Read more »
Some time back, I spoke at a panel at Duke Law School on detention policy alongside, among others, Michael Gottlieb, who had just completed a fourteen month tour as the top civilian official in Task Force 435 in Afghanistan. As … Read more »
Kandahar City, Wednesday, November 17, 2010 — Counterinsurgency (COIN) theory—for that is what my last post describes—is only that: theory. The current reality in Afghanistan is that the rule of law remains mostly just a worthy goal. To evaluate whether … Read more »
Friday, May 24, 2013
Coverage of President Obama’s speech yesterday is plentiful: Here are Peter Baker of the New York Times, Karen DeYoung and Greg Miller of the Washington Post, and Mark Mazzetti of the Times with an analysis of the key points of the speech. Scott Wilson of the Post also provides a rundown of the speech, and cites Ben. The Associated Press reports on lifting the transfer ban on Yemeni detainees, and Colleen McCain Nelson, Adam Entous, and Julia E. Barnes… Read more »
