Enemy combatant is a term historically referring to members of the armed forces of the state with which another state is at war. Prior to 2008, the definition was: "Any person in an armed conflict who could be properly detained under the laws and customs of war." In the case of a civil war or an insurrection the term "enemy state" may be replaced by the more general term "Party to the conflict" (as described in the 1949 Geneva Conventions Article 3).
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| - Enemy combatant is a term historically referring to members of the armed forces of the state with which another state is at war. Prior to 2008, the definition was: "Any person in an armed conflict who could be properly detained under the laws and customs of war." In the case of a civil war or an insurrection the term "enemy state" may be replaced by the more general term "Party to the conflict" (as described in the 1949 Geneva Conventions Article 3).
- An enemy combatant is a person who has been predestined by God to conduct a life of terrorism and destroying America. God in his infinite prudence will reveal the names of enemy combatants to the Department of Homeland Security, who will in turn collect the enemy combatants and send them to Guantanamo Bay. Once labelled in this way, a combatant's rights are reduced to the level appropriate for someone who hates America. Combatants in detention are not given access to lawyers, because lawyers will do whatever they are told.
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| - An enemy combatant is a person who has been predestined by God to conduct a life of terrorism and destroying America. God in his infinite prudence will reveal the names of enemy combatants to the Department of Homeland Security, who will in turn collect the enemy combatants and send them to Guantanamo Bay. Once labelled in this way, a combatant's rights are reduced to the level appropriate for someone who hates America. Combatants in detention are not given access to lawyers, because lawyers will do whatever they are told. Image:WWTS1sted1.png "Enemy Combatant"is a part of Wikiality.com's dictionary, "Watch What You Say". For the full dictionary, click .
- Enemy combatant is a term historically referring to members of the armed forces of the state with which another state is at war. Prior to 2008, the definition was: "Any person in an armed conflict who could be properly detained under the laws and customs of war." In the case of a civil war or an insurrection the term "enemy state" may be replaced by the more general term "Party to the conflict" (as described in the 1949 Geneva Conventions Article 3). In the United States the phrase "enemy combatant" was used after the September 11 attacks by the George W. Bush administration to include an alleged member of al Qaeda or the Taliban being held in detention by the U.S. government as part of the war on terror. In this sense, "enemy combatant" actually refers to persons the United States regards as unlawful combatants, a category of persons who do not qualify for prisoner-of-war status under the Geneva Conventions. Thus, the term "enemy combatant" has to be read in context to determine whether it means any combatant belonging to an enemy state, whether lawful or unlawful, or if it means an alleged member of al Qaeda or of the Taliban being detained as an unlawful combatant by the United States. In the United States on March 13, 2009, the Obama administration announced its abandonment of the Bush administration's use of the term "enemy combatant".
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