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echo: barktopus
to: Robert Comer
from: Gary Britt
date: 2007-06-14 10:28:56
subject: Re: `a landmark victory for the rule of law and a defeat for unchecked

From: Gary Britt 

Not "enemy",  "Enemy Combatants" and "Illegal
Enemy Combatants", and because of the problems you describe these
enemy combatants are entitled to a hearing before a military tribunal and
an appeal to the DC Circuit to challenge the rightfulness of their
classification and detention.  Unlike German and Japanese prisoners of war
from world war II.

Gary

Robert Comer wrote:
> Part of the problem here is that the "War on Terror", isn't a war like
> previous ones, the enemy is not so easy to determine, so it's far too
> easy to just label someone an enemy.  There is no Germans, or Japanese
> to target (though what we did to the Japanese American's is pretty
> shameful), the enemy is just an ideal that anyway can be accused of,
> so there *has* to be more controls on just who is labeled an enemy.
>

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