Enemy combatant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Enemy combatant is a term historically referring to members of the armed forces of the state with which another state is at war. In the United States the use of the phrase "enemy combatant" may also ...
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An unlawful combatant or unprivileged combatant/belligerent is a civilian who directly engages in armed conflict in violation of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and may be detained or prosecu...
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MEMORANDUM To: Members of the ASIL-CFR Roundtable From: William J. Haynes II, General Counsel of the Department of Defense Subject: Enemy Combatants There is no doubt that the attacks of September 11, 2001 constituted acts of war. ... The President, as Commander in Chief, determined that Mr. Padilla is an enemy combatant.
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The power of the President to declare enemy combatants was not used until the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Once determined by the president to be an enemy combatant, persons may be held indefinitely and are subject to the jursidiction of military tribunals.
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In a dramatic break with the Bush administration, the Justice Department on Friday announced it is doing away with the designation of "enemy combatant," which allowed the United States to hold suspected terrorists at length without criminal charges. ... "The president also has the authority to detain persons who were part of,
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A federal appeals court Wednesday ruled President Bush has the authority to designate U.S. citizens as enemy combatants and detain them in military custody if they are deemed a threat to national security. ... The court did not address the issue presented in a separate case involving another enemy combatant,
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This book, "Enemy Combatant," draws its power from simple, straight forward descriptions of what it was like for an innocent man to be arrested in the night as a suspected terrorist in Pakistan, torn from wife and children, and then spend the next years of his life in US prisons at Bagram, Kandahar and Guantanamo.
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The letter states: “Yaser left our home in Saudi Arabia for Pakistan and then Afghanistan on July 15, 2001, to do relief work in those countries.” He was there “less than two months prior to September 11, which is not enough time to receive any military training, so how can he be considered an enemy combatant...
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The decisions handed down June 28 by the US Supreme Court on the Bush administration’s detention of alleged terrorists as “enemy combatants,” including hundreds of non-Americans at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and two US citizens being held in Navy brigs in the US, have vast implications for the democratic rights of the ...
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FindLaw | Legal News & Information. ... The government asserts that domestic courts have no authority to question the military's determination that a citizen is an enemy combatant. Yet the consequence of such a determination is that the citizen may not be entitled to all of the procedural protections of the Bill of Rights.
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