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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.


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9781593323257 The detention of unlawful enemy combatants during the war on terror.
2/20/2009 4:24:16 AM The US military is about to complete a $60m expansion to its prison at the Bagram air base in Afghanistan, where it holds more than 600 so-called enemy combatants.
32) In distinguishing the cases cited by the Government, the majority noted that American courts have looked to "careful distinctions made in the [international] law of war in identifying which individuals fit within the legal category of enemy combatants under our Constitution.
 
 
 
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