Sentences with phrase «by enemy combatants»

Like VC fighters hacking their way through Vietnam's jungles in order to keep the Ho Chi Minh trail open and supplies flowing we find ourselves in the thick of auto - show season, surrounded by enemy combatants... or perhaps just journalists from other publications.

Mr Prothero, I would venture to say that you have never been fired upon by an enemy combatant; never been in fear for your life in a foreign land; and obviously never been dependent on the man next to you for the protection he affords.

Not exact matches

Killing enemy combatants in battles for self - defense and protection of the home country and executing vicious criminals by justice are perfectly acceptable and are commanded by God.

A U.S. official would have to establish in a Declaration under penalty of perjury that an individual was associated with one of the terrorist organizations covered by the AUMF to declare someone an enemy combatant.

An «enemy» in the context of the phrase «enemy combatant» is a term of art that refers to a group defined by Congress with whom the United States is at war or against whom it is authorized to use military force.

From the same case, we know that the government can change the enemy combatant status and formally charge the person, several years after initial arrest, (~ 3.5 yrs here), in order to avoid review by US Supreme Court.

There have also been military commission cases since Padilla, but they go to the question of the proper scope and process to apply in military commissions of enemy combatants imposing some punishment beyond indefinite detention as a quasi-prisoner of war for the duration of the war on terrorism authorized by the AUMF.

Ross assists T'Challa in saving Wakanda from Killmonger by remotely piloting a heavily armed unmanned airship, echoing the drones used to kill «enemy combatants» in America's wars in the Middle East and Africa.

Never one to shy away from a good slaughter, the prolific Japanese auteur dials up the violence even by his high standards, orchestrating not one but two massive battles of attrition that a pit lone wolf swordsman against absurdly large numbers of disposable enemy combatants.

Johnson replied: «Unlike conventional soldiers who abide by certain laws of war, and who would also be bound by the III Geneva Convention to act in certain ways when confined, the enemy combatants in the high - security section committed themselves at some point to killing Americans, period.

By juggling characters — so that your three active combatants in any given fight have the skills to exploit your enemy's weakness (fire beats ice, for example)-- it's possible to trigger chains of attacks, called Sessions.

The player's team appears on screen against up to three enemy combatants with turn order determined by individual character statistics.

The strategy comes from reacting to the enemy units, by generating companions that can counter the robot combatant's in classic strategy rock, paper, scissors.

One of the three, Coyle writes, is Adel Hamad, an enemy combatant whose legal case was profiled in a video, Guantanamo Unclassified, posted on YouTube by his lawyers in the Federal Public Defender's Office.

Holland writes, «The court's intervention is troubling news for the White House, which has been battered by criticism of its treatment of detainees and was rebuked by the high court last year for holding enemy combatants in legal limbo.»

As Andrew Sullivan writes here, Mukasey supported alleged enemy combatant Jose Padilla's right to consult with counsel — a position opposed by the Bush administration.

(a) Nature of the authority to create military commissions for the trial of enemy combatants for offenses against the law of war, and principles governing the exercise of jurisdiction by such commissions, considered.

We further pointed out that Congress, by sanctioning trial of enemy combatants for violations of the law of war by military commission, had not attempted to codify the law of war or to mark its precise boundaries.

However, in the unique facts of Capt. Semrau's case, the greatest challenge faced by the prosecution may not be in proving its case beyond a reasonable doubt, but in maintaining moral legitimacy when imposing the obligatory life sentence for murder upon a decorated soldier who, if found guilty, would be responsible for an apparent mercy killing of an enemy combatant.

By simply not worsening the relationship between the parents through adversarial litigation, mediation allows the parents to get through the stressful process of getting divorce without turning them into enemy combatants.