Search Results - "enemy combatants"

Did the US stage a lie on 9/11? by Abd Razak, Dzulkifli

“…For one, it has spawned even more cruelty and abuse, with wideranging forms of punishment meted out to just anyone who qualifies under the vague label of "enemy combatants", including those who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.…”
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Intelligence Agencies and the Use of Lethal Force by Ford, Shannon

“…I argue that the conventional account for justifying the military use of lethal force in war grants military combatants special permissions for killing enemy combatants. Next I discuss the ways in which changes in modern conflict have created problems for the conventional approach. …”
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Civil Liberties and National Security: Judicial Review of Executive Power by Shah, Pinky

“…The terrorist attacks on September, 11 2001 mobilised the country against fighting terrorism and resulted in the executive amassing considerable detention authority over foreign nationals and citizens whom he unilaterally designated as 'enemy combatants'. As these cases worked their way up the judicial hierarchy to the Supreme Court, they were widely seen as a defeat for the executive's claim of unlimited and unchecked detention authority. …”
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The Just War Tradition and the Moral Reality of War: A Principled Approach to Moral Exceptionalism by Ford, Shannon

“…This “moral exceptionalism” gives the military special permissions to kill enemy combatants in war. Military exceptionalism here refers to the view that military combatants in active theatres of war are not bound by the same moral rules about killing that apply to an ordinary person in peacetime. …”
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