I've been reading it I'll get back to you guys later.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/.../~c109yoM8Rd::
There's the bill online(I think it's the right one)
UNLAWFUL ENEMY COMBATANT(under definitions, it also defines lawful enemy combatant as well):
Quote:
`(1) UNLAWFUL ENEMY COMBATANT- (A) The term `unlawful enemy combatant' means an individual determined by or under the authority of the President or the Secretary of Defense--
`(i) to be part of or affiliated with a force or organization (including al Qaeda, the Taliban, any international terrorist organization, or associated forces) that is engaged in hostilities against the United States or its co-belligerents in violation of the law of war;
`(ii) to have committed a hostile act in aid of such a force or organization so engaged; or
`(iii) to have supported hostilities in aid of such a force or organization so engaged.
`(B) Such term includes any individual determined by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal before the date of the enactment of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 to have been properly detained as an enemy combatant.
`(C) Such term does not include any alien determined by the President or the Secretary of Defense (whether on an individualized or collective basis), or by any competent tribunal established under their authority, to be--
`(i) a lawful enemy combatant (including a prisoner of war); or
`(ii) a protected person whose trial by a military commission under this chapter would be inconsistent with Articles 64 through 76 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of August 12, 1949.
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