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enemy combatant |
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Any person in an armed conflict who could be properly detained under the laws and customs of war. Also called EC. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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This is just some of what the bill allows: broad definition of enemy combatant, no right to habeus corpus, arbitrary detention, unrestricted torture of detainees, all past acts of torture and abuse exonerated, military control over sentencing of detainees, use of coerced statements, reversal of Hamdi v. During this time, enemy combatants did not breech the camp's perimeter. Enemy Combatant is an eye-opening story, both fascinating and frightening, about an ordinary man subjected to extraordinary injustice. |
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