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To: c.hinton who wrote (6657)	5/23/2007 7:00:57 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

That's a poor definition. Its to narrow. Any combatant who is an enemy but is not associated with, or currently or formerly part of the Taliban, would not be counted, despite the fact that they would indeed be an enemy combatant.

To: c.hinton who wrote (6657)	6/20/2007 1:27:20 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

Courting the Enemy "...The wartime use of force obviously includes the detention of enemy combatants, as the Supreme Court found in its 2004 Hamdi decision. Such detentions are sanctioned by laws of war older than the United States, customs that permit the detention of enemy operatives for the collection of intelligence and depletion of enemy assets. These are standards designed to end wars justly, humanely, and more promptly. As a member of an al Qaeda sleeper cell, al-Marri was just such an enemy combatant, the commander-in-chief had found. Though lawfully in the United States on a student visa, he was in communication with 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, among others. Since al-Marri’s efforts were acts of war rather than mere crimes, President Bush ordered him held as an alien unlawful enemy combatant. But now the Fourth Circuit has substituted the commander-in-chief’s wartime judgment with its own. Two judges — Diana Gribbon Motz, a Clinton appointee, and Roger Gregory, an unsuccessful Clinton appointee renominated by President Bush in a good-will gesture to Democrats — ordered that al-Marri be released or referred to the civilian-justice system for a full-fledged criminal trial. Astoundingly, Justices Motz and Gregory did not doubt that al-Marri was just as dangerous as the administration claims him to be. Instead, they found that because al Qaeda is not a traditional national enemy, its operatives — stationed here in the United States to kill Americans — are mere civilians, not combatants. By their lights, even 9/11 ringleader Mohamed Atta wasn’t a combatant. Despite his enlistment in an organization waging war on America that had trained him and sent him here, he was just a civilian. Dissenting district judge Henry E. Hudson, sitting by designation from the Eastern District of Virginia, had it right: We are at war and Congress has authorized the president to use force against enemy operatives, including, as necessary, to detain them. Jihadists needn’t be part of a militia attached to a traditional national army to be such operatives. Nor, in this asymmetrical war, need they be captured on a traditional battlefield outside the United States. Indeed, those captured inside our country are the most dangerous of all. In the war on terror, the battlefield is wherever al Qaeda launches its next attack..." article.nationalreview.com Would Mo Atta have been an enemy combatant? prairiepundit.blogspot.com Message 23619938