| LC control no. | sh2008008225 |
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| Topical heading | Detention of unlawful combatants |
| Variant(s) | Unlawful combatants, Detention of |
| See also | Detention of persons |
| Found in | Work cat.: Singh, A. Testimony of Amrit Singh, staff attorney at the Immigrant's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Foundation, before the House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, Oversight hearing on torture and the cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of detainees, 2007. United States. Dept. of Defense, Working group report on detainee interrogation in the Global War on Terrorism : assessment of legal, historical, policy, and operational considerations, 2003. Wikipedia, Aug. 4, 2008 (Detainee is a controversial term used by certain governments and their military to refer to individuals held in custody, such as those it does not classify and treat as either prisoners of war or suspects in criminal cases. It is used to refer to "any person captured or otherwise detained by an armed force." ... The word came into common usage during and after the War in Afghanistan (2001 present), as the U.S. government's term of choice to describe members of the Taliban and al-Qaeda captured in that war, which has generated considerable controversy around the globe. The U.S. government classifies captured enemy combatants as "detainees" because there is no consensus about whether the combatants are "prisoners of war" under the definition found in the Geneva Convention.) DOD dictionary of military terms, Aug. 5, 2008 (Detainee. A term used to refer to any person captured or otherwise detained by an armed force.) |
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