What It Means and What Are Its Limits
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With the Mosul battle raging and the Raqqa offensive possibly weeks away, U.S. policymakers and government attorneys will be facing a familiar kind of problem: What is going to be done with the inevitable ISIL fighters captured in the battle?
The answer to that question is not going to be easy, as evidenced by the ongoing legal and policy debates surrounding the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where hundreds of detainees tied to the conflict with Al Qaeda and the Taliban were brought following the 9/11 attacks in 2001. Of those, 60 remain.
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