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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat is the criteria for someone to be determined as an "Enemy Combatant"?
Was the term "enemy combatant" created by Bush administration? What is the criteria to determine when someone is an "enemy combatant"? Does the weapon have to be a bomb vs a assault gun? Under what law, case law, or administrative rule does the determination of enemy combatant fall?
It appears to me to be to be arbitrary, depending on which way the political winds are blowing.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Walk away
(9,494 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)But then you would be an enemy combatant.
still_one
(92,394 posts)Gregorian
(23,867 posts)still_one
(92,394 posts)Last edited Tue Apr 23, 2013, 09:21 AM - Edit history (1)
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)whatever the US needs it to be. The US changed the historic definition following 9/11.
I thought Pres. Obama had dropped its usage.
spanone
(135,873 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)Although the exact definition may depend on whether it occurs on American or foreign soil. My guess is foreign.
KauaiK
(544 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)Hot air is not a very useful weapon.
DevonRex
(22,541 posts)Work your way backwards, until you see that this is indeed the section you need. Then back, and you'll have to read all the definitions to put a good understanding together.
This site also has the Supreme Court decisions like Hamdi.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/03-6696
I haven't read all of it yet...but I will. It still seem arbitrary and political as to who gets charged as an enemy combatant and who doesn't. I appreciate your effort to inform!!
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Taking up arms against the US and capture in an actual battlefield.