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13 Dec 2006, 4:09 pm
It is the fact that the petitioners were enemy aliens - an undisputed fact - that is paramount in Eisentrager: The prisoners rely, however, upon two decisions of this Court to get them over the threshold -- Ex parte Quirin, 317 U.S. 1, and In re Yamashita, 327 U.S. 1. [read post]
20 Apr 2006, 9:23 am
According to the US legal position, the status of enemy combatant is equivalent to that of an unlawful combatant which is, again according to the US legal position, a status in between combatants and civilians, giving the detainees neither the rights of an prisoner of war, who inter alia has to be released after the actual fighting ends, nor of a civilian, who has to be indicted for a criminal offence immediately (see for the US position the Supreme Court Case, Ex parte… [read post]
