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KHOU
March 15, 2018
The senator said he cannot vote for either candidate based on their past support for using torture techniques to interrogate enemy combatants and suspected terrorists. That issue is at the heart of the controversy over both nominees, and has already led several Democrats — including Ron Wyden ofÃâà...
Business Insider
March 15, 2018
Though enemy combatants were killed in these attacks, no US troops were reportedly killed. The incident highlights some of the danger in conducting military operations in West Africa, just as military officials aim to curb the number of riskier missions. US Army Staff Sgt. Bryan Black, Staff Sgt. Jeremiah Johnson, Staff Sgt.
The Advocate
March 15, 2018
Though enemy combatants were killed in these attacks, no US troops were reportedly killed. The incident highlights some of the danger in conducting military operations in West Africa, just as military officials aim to curb the number of riskier missions. US Army Staff Sgt. Bryan Black, Staff Sgt. JeremiahÃâà...
Washington Examiner
March 12, 2018
In a war, you blockade enemy combatants to make them poorer. A tariff, by contrast, is a blockade against yourself. As the nineteenth-century economist Henry George put it, “What protection teaches us is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.” Sure enough, othersÃâà...
Miami Herald
February 14, 2018
“AR-15s are designed to kill multiple enemy combatants at once,” said Frank Smyth, weapons expert and founder of GJS, an organization that trains journalists for combat reporting. “But of course in the hands of an active shooter or an individual that was targeting civilians, it's a tactical weapon. It enablesÃâà...
NBCNews.com
January 5, 2018
A U.S. citizen being held in Iraq as an enemy combatant wanted the ACLU to represent him and fight his detention, the civil liberties group said in a court filing Friday. A federal judge last month ordered the government to let the unidentified man — who was picked up on a Syrian battlefield in SeptemberÃâà...
Politico
November 1, 2017
The White House on Wednesday said it considers a man suspected in the deaths of eight people in New York City on Tuesday an “enemy combatant,” a designation that would grant him fewer rights than other detainees. Sayfullo Saipov, who immigrated to the United States from Uzbekistan, has beenÃâà...
NBCNews.com
September 15, 2017
WASHINGTON — Almost nothing is publicly known about the American ISIS fighter who is now in the custody of the U.S. military, but one fact has already made the case extraordinary: The Trump Administration has declared him an enemy combatant, according to a military spokesman. Legal experts say itÃâà...
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