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2 unusual facts about Peter Brownback


Jeffrey Groharing

Colonel Peter Brownback, the Presiding Officer of Omar Khadr's military commission, was expected to make a ruling as to whether Khadr was an "illegal enemy combatant".

Keith J. Allred

Allred, and Peter Brownback, the officer presiding over Omar Khadr's Tribunal, ruled that the since the Act only authorized the Commissions to try "unlawful enemy combatants", and that Hamdan and Khadr's Combatant Status Review Tribunals had merely confirmed that the captives were "enemy combatants", the Commissions lacked jurisdiction.



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