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	Enemy combatant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An enemy combatant has historically referred to members of the armed forces of the state with which another state is at war.
		An enemy combatant has been defined as "an individual who was part of or supporting the Taliban or al Qaida forces, or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners.
		Enemy combatants in the war on terrorism are not defined by simple, readily apparent criteria, such as citizenship or military uniform.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Enemy_combatant (654 words)

	CNN.com - Lawyers' group set to condemn enemy combatant policy - Feb. 10, 2003
		The war on terror has been a prominent theme at the association's winter meeting in Seattle, a port city where signs of the heightened terror alert were evident with tighter security on the water, at the airport and at the state's border with Canada.
		ABA leaders will vote as early as Monday on the proposal calling for lawyers to be provided to Americans and U.S. residents held as combatants to help them argue in court that their detentions are illegal.
		Enemy combatants, a type of wartime prisoner, are held without charge or trial and are not allowed to see lawyers.
	www.cnn.com /2003/LAW/02/10/aba.enemy.combatants.ap/index.html (708 words)

	Former 'enemy combatant' pleads not guilty - Boston.com
		Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen who was held for more than three years as an "enemy combatant," pleaded not guilty Thursday to criminal charges alleging he was part of a secret network that supported Muslim terrorists.
		Padilla, the U.S. citizen held by the Bush administration for over three years as an illegal "enemy combatant," pleaded not guilty Thursday to criminal charges that he was part of a secret network that supported violent Muslim extremists around the world.
		MIAMI --Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen who was held for more than three years as an "enemy combatant," pleaded not guilty Thursday to criminal charges alleging he was part of a secret network that supported Muslim terrorists.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2006/01/12/former_enemy_combatant_pleads_not_guilty (445 words)

	First Word » The Bill of Rights, RIP
		And though logically unassailable (one can no more deny that a man who is not a lawful enemy combatant is an unlawful enemy combatant than he can deny that a man who is not married is unmarried), it is unfortunately a tautology.
		Here an ‛illegal enemy combatant’ is defined as one who has been deemed such by “a Combatant Status Review Tribunal or another competent tribunal established under the authority of the President or the Secretary of Defense.” In other words, a military court decides who is an illegal enemy combatant.
		Indeed, he will be effectively deprived of these rights the moment he is accused of being an enemy combatant since the defendant will be subject to military law; and military law does not afford the defendant the same rights as the Constitution.
	butler-harris.org /archives/74 (3707 words)

	CNN.com - Opportunistic use of 'enemy combatant' label - Oct 15, 2004
		They also serve, as the public record reflects, to prove that the government is using the "enemy combatant" designation tactically -- not in a consistent way, based on the facts and the law.
		It's not about allegedly fighting against the United States: Both convicted felon Lindh, and "enemy combatant" Hamdi were captured at the same time, in the same place, "in a zone of active combat in a foreign theater of conflict" -- Afghanistan.
		Meanwhile, while enemy combatant Jose Padilla, too, allegedly was involved in plotting a massacre, fellow enemy combatant Yaser Hamdi seems to be entirely harmless -- after all, the government returned him to the Middle East, where our troops remain in Iraq.
	www.cnn.com /2004/LAW/10/15/radack.enemy.combatant (2202 words)

	RE: Padilla case is bad news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The "illegal enemy combatant" is a despicable foe, one who ignores international rules of war and fights for an outlaw outfit, like Al Qaeda or the Taliban, rather than for a recognized nation.
		But allowing for the possibility that Padilla might not actually be an enemy combatant, Mukasey said the administration would have to face a court challenge and make at least "some evidence" hold up in the end.
		Ashcroft told author Brill, "Detaining a person who is an enemy combatant does not preclude subsequent prosecution." It remains to be seen how material obtained through intensive interrogation would be viewed in a trial, and whether the government could seek a punishment as severe as death, based on such coerced information.
	www.leftwatch.com /6382 (3241 words)

	Military Commissions Act/Keith Obermann report - Page 4 - TheFiringLine Forums
		If "a person" is found to be an "unlawful enemy combatant" under that definition, he or she could be (1) prosecuted under this act (2) held indefinitely (3) Put to death.
		In short, unless "Enemy Combatant" is already a federal crime (perhaps equating to "Treason"?), then your interpretation holds and I'd agree the language is disturbing.
		We therefore hold that a citizen-detainee seeking to challenge his classification as an enemy combatant must receive notice of the factual basis for his classification, and a fair opportunity to rebut the Government's factual assertions before a neutral decisionmaker.
	www.thefiringline.com /forums/showthread.php?p=2139730 (3252 words)

	Unlawful combatant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term unlawful combatant (also unlawful enemy combatant or unprivileged combatant/belligerent) is a term used by the Bush administration to label certain persons they consider outside of the protection of the Geneva Conventions; those to whom they do grant such protections they refer to as lawful combatants.
		An unlawful combatant is accorded neither the rights a soldier would normally have under the laws of war, nor the civil rights a common criminal would normally have.
		Enemy Combatants and the Geneva Conventions by the Council on Foreign Relations
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Illegal_enemy_combatant (7843 words)

	CNN.com - Enemy combatant's attorney wants day in court - Jul 8, 2004
		The move came days after the Supreme Court ruled another enemy combatant had the right to go before U.S. courts to challenge his status and the allegations against him.
		Al-Marri is among three enemy combatants being held in the United States, all at the Charleston brig.
		Yaser Hamdi, one of the other two designated enemy combatants, on June 28 won a Supreme Court ruling saying he should be allowed to petition federal courts over his incarceration.
	www.cnn.com /2004/LAW/07/08/enemy.combatant (575 words)

	Northeast Intelligence Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Each illegal enemy combatant detained at Guantanamo is given three nutritious halal meals (culturally-appropriate and in accordance with Islamic dietary law) per day.
		Each illegal enemy combatant detainee has a Quibla, a large green and white sign in his cell which points toward Mecca.
		Each illegal enemy combatant had ALL of this done and paid for him at US taxpayer expense and this is far, far in excess of requirements delineated by Geneva Convention Cat.
	homelandsecurityus.com /defiled.asp (389 words)

	Handling Illegal Enemy Combatants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This paper explores many of the difficulties, challenges, and debates involved with the issue of illegal (enemy) combatants: e.g., their humane and lawful detention, the role of torture and enhanced interrogation, rendition and extraordinary rendition, as well as other issues which may lead to clarification and better understanding.
		Those combatants ascribed the status of "unlawful combatant" (sometimes called unprivileged combatant, irregular soldier, or "franc-tireur" - French for "free shooter" or armed resistance fighter) are usually cases of doubt as to whether such persons should be granted POW (Prisoner of War) status or criminal status.
		United States policy on the handling of illegal combatants calls for some kind of duly constituted court and can be traced to the 1942 precedent of ex parte Quirin.
	faculty.ncwc.edu /toconnor/430/430lect16.htm (10160 words)

	CNN.com - Americans may be held as 'enemy combatants,' appeals court rules - Jan. 8, 2003
		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, that of accused "dirty bomb" suspect Jose Padilla.
		His attorneys have argued that he ought to be returned to New York and that the government should be forced to comply with standard criminal court procedures, including letting him speak to his attorneys.
	www.cnn.com /2003/LAW/01/08/enemy.combatants (763 words)

	Supreme Court Decision: Detainees and Enemy Combatant Rights (washingtonpost.com)
		The Supreme Court ruled today in two cases regarding anti-terrorism legislation and the rights of prisoners and "enemy combatants." The court decided that suspected terrorists must be allowed access to the American justice system to contest their detention.
		The President can detain citizens and foreign combatants if a US judge deems that there is enough evidence and they pose a threat to security.
		My disagreement with on the other side stems from: (1) their unwillingness ever to permit detention of American enemy combatants, no matter how strong the evidence, and (2) their assertion that the military's judgment that someone is an enemy combatant is not entitled to deference.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A12017-2004Jun28.html (3313 words)

	NINJ4_JU4N's Xanga Site
		Not just for enemy soldiers anymore, but now for pretty much anyone who military tribunals define as "an illegal enemy combatant" or even someone who tries to aid said enemy combatants.
		And in some earlier text they had aliens or foreign enemy combatants, and somehow or other, it must have been a typo, they left out foreign, they left out alien.
		I believe the section Ray was referring to was the definition of "illegal enemy combatant," which you can find in the house version of the bill, HR 6166-
	www.xanga.com /NINJ4_JU4N (910 words)

	Is That Legal?: On Padilla, and Remembering Ex parte Endo
		The Supreme Court recently held that the resolution authorized the detention of Yaser Hamdi, a U.S. citizen who was an alleged illegal enemy combatant and was captured overseas.
		The theory was, of course, not that Japanese Americans were "illegal enemy combatants"; the theory was, in a sense, that they had the potential to be such—subversives for a foreign enemy, on U.S. soil.
		From the moment the President declared him an enemy combatant, they held him incommunicado until forced to let him meet with counsel by the courts, and this decision essentially puts a stop to that avenue.
	www.isthatlegal.org /archives/2005/09/on_padilla_and.html (3481 words)

	PORT CITY UNDERGROUND » Claims and Counter-Claims on Qur'an: The Glaring Omission of Media Reporting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The reporting by the main-stream media about what might or might not have occurred at Guantanamo has obscured the honest-to-God truth about the American way and that we practice what we preach, specifically as it relates to our constitutional guarantee of Freedom of Religion.
		Not one of these illegal enemy combatant detainee's who came from Afghanistan had a Qur'an in his possession when captured.
		A brand new Qur'an in the specific, native language of each individual was provided to each "enemy combatant".
	www.portcityunderground.com /pivot/entry.php?id=56 (350 words)

	Man enters plea in terrorism case \| Ocala.com \| Star-Banner \| Ocala, Fla. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		MIAMI - Jose Padilla, the U.S. citizen held by the Bush administration for more than three years as an illegal "enemy combatant," pleaded not guilty Thursday to criminal charges that he was part of a secret network that supported violent Muslim extremists around the world.
		Padilla, a Muslim convert, was held for 3 years as an enemy combatant after U.S. officials claimed he plotted as an al-Qaida operative to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" and blow up apartment buildings in major U.S. cities.
		He also said Padilla should not be held for months longer in solitary confinement after his isolation as a combatant.
	www.ocala.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060113/NEWS/201130320/1002/news02 (495 words)

	Teachable Moment -
		The president labeled those fighting the U.S. in the "war on terror" as "illegal enemy combatants" because, he said, they are a unique enemy.
		The MCA defines an "illegal enemy combatant" as anyone who "has been determined to be an enemy combatant by a competent tribunal" established by the president.
		The MCA gives the president the power to select a "competent tribunal" to determine if someone is an "illegal enemy combatant." No one is authorized to review his choices or how a tribunal is operating.
	www.teachablemoment.org /high/militarycommissionsact.html (2827 words)

	The Supreme Court considers whether the president can throw away the key. - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		He was picked up in a Chicago airport, held as a material witness in New York, then labeled an enemy combatant and moved to a Navy brig, where he has been confined ever since.
		Justice Sandra Day O'Connor asks Dunham for precedent involving U.S. citizens who are enemy combatants, and he offers up Ex Parte Quirin, a World War II case involving eight Nazi spies (one of whom claimed to be an American) who snuck into the United States with the intention of blowing things up.
		Dunham points out that the words "enemy combatant" have no legal meaning; they are "not defined in the case law, not defined by statute." Justice Antonin Scalia breaks in to say that they are, nevertheless, "English words, meaning someone who is combating.
	slate.msn.com /id/2099618 (2416 words)

	The Everlasting Shame of the United States Congress \| AfterDowningStreet.org
		First of all it creates an incredibly broad and sweeping definition of who is an illegal enemy combatant, unlawful enemy combatant.
		Anybody who has been designated as an enemy combatant by the CSRT (Combatant Status Review Tribunal) - this is a creature that only exists only at Guantanamo - but not only by the CSRT, by any similar commission that is appointed by the President of the United States or anybody who is awaiting such designation.
		And this part of the process, the definition of enemy combatant is extremely frightening and disturbing.
	www.afterdowningstreet.org /node/14480 (2106 words)

	Religious Rights are being respected at Gitmo - World Affairs Board
		# Each illegal enemy combatant had ALL of this done and paid for him at US taxpayer expense and this is far, far in excess of requirements delineated by Geneva Convention Cat.
		But contrary to the fantasies of the international-law and human rights lobbies, a world in which all interrogation is illegal and rights are indiscriminately doled out is not a safer or more just world.
		By definition, our terrorist enemies and their state supporters have declared themselves enemies of the civilized order and its humanitarian rules.
	www.worldaffairsboard.com /showthread.php?t=6048 (7311 words)

	The War Powers Debate - eNews for April 04, 2006
		After three years of being held as an "illegal enemy combatant" in the US, he was released to go live in Saudi Arabia, upon the condition that he renounce his US citizenship.
		He has been held as an "illegal enemy combatant" and has been accused of conspiring with Al-Qaida and engaging in terrorist-attack planning.
		They are traitors, and the federal government has argued that because they are "illegal enemy combatants", they both forfeited the rights of their US citizenships.
	www.khouse.org /enews_article/2006/1057 (744 words)

	Bob's Links and Rants: Call now!
		Enemy Combatants: A dangerously broad definition of "illegal enemy combatant" in the bill could subject legal residents of the United States, as well as foreign citizens living in their own countries, to summary arrest and indefinite detention with no hope of appeal.
		Bush would have to do to lock anyone up forever is to declare him an illegal combatant and not have a trial.
		Coerced Evidence: Coerced evidence would be permissible if a judge considered it reliable--already a contradiction in terms--and relevant.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~bgoodsel/post911/2006/09/call-now.htm (340 words)

	Are YOU the Enemy? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Brigadier General Walker's warning voice was but one in a respectable chorus of credible opponents harmonizing in their condemnation of the unconstitutional and unjust aspects of the new law.
		Padilla's attorney immediately filed a habeas corpus petition with the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, seeking to invoke his client's constitutionally guaranteed right to be informed as to the justification for his confinement.
		Passage of the MCA was pushed by the current administration in a bid to get congressional approval of all the illegal actions that they had already been taking, obviously banking on the idea that if they could get congressional approval, they would also get Supreme Court approval.
	www.thenewamerican.com /artman/publish/article_4269.shtml (2323 words)

	Winter Patriot: One Day Forward, 900 Years Back : Democracy Murdered In Broad Daylight
		The president can declare anyone an illegal enemy combatant, the CIA can pick him up and throw him in a secret prison, and that will be the end of that.
		The legislation broadens the definition of enemy combatants beyond the traditional definition used in wartime, to include noncitizens living legally in this country as well as those in foreign countries, and also anyone determined to be an enemy combatant under criteria defined by the president or secretary of defense.
		The compromise legislation, which is racing toward the White House, authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United States.
	winterpatriot.blogspot.com /2006/09/one-day-forward-900-years-back.html (2736 words)

	The Blog \| Barry Yourgrau: Is George Bush an "Unlawful Enemy Combatant"? \| The Huffington Post
		Thus the word "alien" in front of the words "unlawful enemy combatant." The problem is, there is simply no legitimate reason to deny habeas corpus to "aliens." It allows the government to imprison non-citizens forever.
		Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. Supreme Court decision reversing the dismissal of a habeas corpus petition brought on behalf of Yaser Esam Hamdi, a U.S. citizen being detained indefinitely as an "illegal enemy combatant".
		The Court recognized the power of the government to detain unlawful combatants, but ruled that detainees who are U.S. citizens must have the ability to challenge their detention before an impartial judge.
	www.huffingtonpost.com /barry-yourgrau/is-george-bush-an-unlawf_b_32139.html?p=2 (3096 words)

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