Obama Abandons Use of 'Enemy Combatant'

[dgriffin]

Obama Administration Abandons Use of Term 'Enemy Combatant'



The Obama administration today dropped the term "enemy combatant" to describe those held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and increased the legal threshold needed to detain them.

The Justice Department disclosed the move in a court filing in response to a federal judge's order seeking a definition of the term "enemy combatant."

Judges have said the definition will play a key role in determining whether the government has justified the confinement of scores of detainees who are challenging their status in U.S. District Court.

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/13/AR2009031302371.html?hpid=topnews

I wonder what he'll call them the next time one of 'em flies a plane into a building.

[frankcor]

Brother?

[bobbbiez]

Frankie, gotta give you this. You are in rare form today. Must be the new hair do. ;D

[wcup102]

did we ever have a use for "enemy combatants"

[frankcor]

We stacked them up about 5-feet high and used them for sandbags.