Sentences with phrase «many enemy combatants»

On the battlefield, it means the literal enemy combatant, but for a business, the enemy could be a marketplace or personnel crisis, a cash flow problem or a product delay.

In addition to civil rights for people of color, women and LGBT, there has been an expansion of religious liberty for minority sects, enforcement of viewpoint neutrality with respect to access to various public and non-public forums (e.g. religious student groups must be granted equal access to school facilities as their secular counterparts, etc) greater protections against age and disability discrimination, and recognition of habeas corpus rights even for enemy combatants.

Bill, fighting against enemy combatants in warzones is a different thing.

This is why we have disputes over whether our enemies are insurgents, rebels, enemy combatants, soldiers, extremists, terrorists or criminals.

Tying MMA into a sermon is as incompatible with Christianity as comparing following Jesus with soldiers attacking an enemy combatant.

Does being pro-life include the lives of those on death row, enemy combatants / civilians in war, or funding government social programs that support women and children?

Being «pro-life» means defending innocents» rights to life, and I take it that I have a different relationship with enemy combatants.

• Enemy combatants: I am a just war theorist, and affirm proportionality as a means of using force.

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.

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.

Does that apply to all enemies, even terrorists and enemy combatants?

Also, it may be true that no women and children were actually killed in the Canaanite conquest, and that only enemy combatants were killed.

Of the few people who were actually killed, they were enemy combatants, and such casualties are to be expected in any war.

It invents an arbitrary line between citizen - enemies and alien enemy combatants, holding that flexible and uncertain rights to a «hearing» on their combatant status must be accorded to certain classes of combatants.

(7) it is REDACTED consistent with U.S. law and the laws of war for the Secretary of Defense to detain Mr. Padilla as enemy combatant.

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.

Accordingly, you are directed to receive Mr. Padilla from the Department of Justice and to detain him as an enemy combatant.

The subsequent developments in the enemy combatant cases (some of which arose collaterally in the criminal trial of Padilla), haven't really change the relevant law.

Irregular forces, enemy combatants, illegal combatants fight or engage in an act of warfare but they may not be citizens or they may not be part of the national army.

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.

For example, a self - proclaimed terrorist from the Animal Liberation Front could not be detained as an enemy combatant, but that is not among the terrorist organizations that Congress has declared war on in the AUMF.

The two pre-9-11 cases that were used to support the enemy combatant doctrine were Ex Parte Quirin, 317 U.S. 1 (1942)(World War II), and Ex Parte Milligan, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.)

For example, the Declaration that supported the Padilla detention as an enemy combatant was as follows:

We know from the Jose Padilla case that US citizens can be detained in the US and held without charge for several years if the POTUS labels them as enemy combatants.

The «enemy combatant» doctrine is part of the law of war and relies upon the notion that during a war you can use all necessary force against enemy soldiers and spies.

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.

Question 2 The OP doesn't specify which parts of the Geneva Conventions he is referring to, but I believe it is in regards to the treatment of suspected terrorists, also known as «enemy combatants.»

Pataki pretty much stuck to the GOP line, criticizing the president for entitling «enemy combatants» to Miranda warnings, enabling them to «lawyer up and not talk about what they know»; and going along with US AG Eric Holder's decision to (so far) hold the KSM trial in a civilian court in NYC.

Pataki did say it's appropriate to make distinctions between non-citizen terror suspects and US citizens like Faisal Shahzad, who has admitted to his role in the Times Square plot, adding: «The Christmas Day bomber should not have been given the Miranda warnings... he is an enemy combatant, a terrorist without those rights.»

The US authorities initially claimed he was an «enemy combatant» in the global war on terror and for years our government more or less accepted this.

It's an interesting, but also complex issue that's really about how we define war and enemy combatants in the modern era.

On September 19th Mr Mohamed officially re-emerged when he was taken from Bagram airbase in Afghanistan to Guantanamo in Cuba, being held there without charge as an «enemy combatant» until the following autumn when he was charged with conspiracy, although these charges were later dropped and replaced with new military commission accusations at the end of 2008.

However, this is not new or unique to USA - heads of state always had ability to have enemy combatants killed outside judicial system - it's called «waging war».

The only difference is that in this case, the definition of what specifically constitutes an enemy combatant is shifting away from early - 20th - century idea of a uniformed member of an official state army, to include asymmetric warfare guerrilla fighters and their leaders despite not being associated with a specific officially recognized state.

Hochul says she was stunned to learn that these vets were more afraid of the unemployment they face when coming home than they were of the enemy combatants they were fighting overseas.

But it's ridiculous that the Bush administration, after seven years, didn't deal with many of those that we know are enemy combatants.»

``... Under the Geneva convention, if they don't have uniforms, if they don't have an identifying patch, if they do not follow the rules of war or conduct themselves in accordance with that or under, you know, established authority, they're enemy combatants,» Berntsen continued.

The new language could boost the administration's contention that it can designate virtually anyone an enemy combatant; the Post notes it «does not rule out the possibility» that the designation could be applied to a U.S. citizen.»

Cole's enemy combatants over at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee were delighted to intercept the NRCC chairman's arithmetic - challenged e-mail.

«Physicians and other personnel are not there for years at a time; they're going in for maybe six weeks or six months, into a very tense environment and making resource - allocation decisions, deciding who gets care and who doesn't: our soldiers versus friendly soldiers versus enemy combatants versus civilians, children.

Cortisol keeps you awake and «wired,» essentially keeping you ready to fight off enemy combatants or run away from a bear... whether those are legitimate threats or not.

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.

The script focusses on giving all the enemy combatants good reasons to be doing bad things.

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.

Japanese jack - of - all - genres Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi The Killer) tackles Hiroaki Samura's popular manga about an unkillable swordsman (pop star Takuya Kimura) who takes a vengeance - obsessed orphan (Hana Sugisaka) under his wing, helping her dispatch wages of enemy combatants.

In essence, Dark Void is a third person shooter that has the player taking on a plethora of enemy combatants from standard grunts to at times, challenging boss battles.

Stuffing dozens or even hundreds of enemy combatants into a single area requires a lot from the hardware, no doubt, but the PlayStation 4 should be more than up to the task, especially given the overall low visual quality present in the game.

Lone Survivor portrays the United States as having a distinct technological advantage over enemy combatants in Afghanistan.

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.