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To: c.hinton who wrote (6602)5/22/2007 11:36:32 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 10087
 
I have offered a better definition.

An enemy combatant is someone who fights for the other side.

Thats a perfect definition. That's precisely what a definition is. Your looking for a methodology to determine who is an enemy combatant and who is not, not a definition. A definition is often one sentence (or even less then a sentence). A full description of a complex methodology can be paragraphs or multiple books.

would be a safe assumtion that there are many innocent people being held.

Innocent people being held isn't really a definitional matter.

If they meet my definition, they aren't innocent.