legal status of combatants

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• Legal Advisor (OARDEC) — A Legal Advisor, and an Assistant Legal Advisor were part of the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants team tasked to conduct Combatant Status Review Tribunals of captives held in extrajudicial detention in the United… …   Wikipedia

• Combatant Status Review Tribunal — Trailer where the Combatant Status Review Tribunals were held. The detainee s hands and feet are shackled to a bolt in the floor in front of the white plastic chair.[1][2] …   Wikipedia

• Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants — The Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants, established in 2004 by the Bush administration s Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz[1], is a United States military body responsible for organising Combatant… …   Wikipedia

• Combatant Status Review Tribunal transcripts — On March 3, 2006 the United States Department of Defense partially complied with a court order and released 53 portable document format files that contained several hundred Combatant Status Review Tribunal transcripts.[1][2][3] Most of the… …   Wikipedia

• Unlawful combatant — An unlawful combatant or unprivileged combatant/belligerent is a civilian who directly engages in armed conflict in violation of the laws of war. An unlawful combatant may be detained or prosecuted under the domestic law of the detaining state… …   Wikipedia

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• war, law of — Introduction       that part of international law dealing with the inception, conduct, and termination of warfare. Its aim is to limit the suffering caused to combatants and, more particularly, to those who may be described as the victims of war… …   Universalium

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