What's the old saying? Military justice is to justice as military music is
to music.
jd
On 3/27/07, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I looked it up. They use several terms, including "enemy combatant", which
> appeared in 2002 to designate an accused Al Qaeda member, Abdullah
> al-Mujahir. David Hicks is an "unlawful combatant" or "unlawful enemy
> combatant" - interesting stuff at Wikipedia on how it's been used to
> sidestep the Geneva Convention.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlawful_combatant
>
> Weasel weasel
>
> Language is powerful stuff
>
> A
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