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 | | The Bush administration may have coined the expression "unlawful combatant", but I think Stephen Sedley is wrong in saying that the concept was hitherto unknown ("Law: The brutal truth", March 5). |
 | | Hitler in his Kommandobefehl of October 18 1942 denied the protection of the Geneva Conventions to captured special troops, even those wearing uniform; he seems, however, to have attempted little in the way of reasoned legal justification. |
 | | Several of those who obeyed this order were charged, tried (with legal representation and in open court) and condemned at Nuremberg by the Allied tribunals. |
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