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U.S. Administration Encounters Difficulties in Effort to End Guantánamo Bay Detentions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

John R. Crook
John R. Crook*
Affiliation:
General International and U.S. Foreign Relations Law
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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 103 , Issue 3 , July 2009 , pp. 575 - 579
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Copyright © 2009 by The American Society of International Law

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