In the past these judicial laws have been bent in order to quickly abolish any threat to American people, but it has also gone the other way in different cases. ... The State Department human rights report of 2000 notes that "Cairo's use of military courts - created in 1992 to counter a wave of terrorist violence - had "deprived hundreds of civilian defendants of their constitutional right to be tried by a civilian judge"" (King, A2). ...

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