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23 Apr

...national security? Tsutsugamushi "The relevance of the distinction is that the Nazis had no logical reason to fear that the Jews threatened their national security. In fact, they had no reasonable basis for doing what they did. " On what ground is it reasonable to abduct somebody in Europe or from a US airport ignoring somehow this person is nowhere near a battlefield -leaving aside the thousands with no apparent ties to terrorism that were bought from bountyhunters- and then claim they were about to "attack" the US? In other...
23.04.09 | |

09 May

...the right to eliminate its enemies on the battlefield, but the Geneva Conventions and other laws of war do not permit this sort of action. At the time of his death, bin Laden was subject to U.N. sanctions including an asset freeze and travel ban. But US hadn't territorial control over OBL area, wasn't within custody of US forces & was hors de combat for the purposes of IHL/OBL. In the light of the evidence and The rule of Law: In the case of OBL, UN “Basic Principles on the...
09.05.11 | |

14 Dec

...the release of battlefield ops and detail in an active war zone would serve to inhibit the muscle and bulwark that is the 1A. Of course, nothing in WikIleaks comes close to approaching that sphere of disclosure, nor did the PPs for that matter. More on point, 1) not even was injunctive relief granted; 2) words of criminal prosecution being successful were offered conditionally, when they were offered, except by White; 3) two justices emphasize the point that the statutory history of the Espionage Act makes clear that congress expressly...
14.12.10 | |

11 Dec

...300 free and 800 indentured labourers sent by their employers. Its task was to take the wounded brought by the Natal Volunteer Ambulance Corps from the battlefield and carry them to the railhead.” “Although Gandhi was against the Boer attempt to reduce Indians to the status of second-class citizens, he admired their courage, religious devotion, and their Afrikaans language and culture. Yet when the Boer War broke out in 1899, Gandhi urged his fellow Indians to support the British monarchy, irrespective of whether the war might be right or wrong,...
11.12.16 | |

03 Aug

...read Quirin as you do. It was not articulating a battlefield status, the term "unlawful combatants" referred to combatants whose conduct made them subject to punishment for a law of war violation. However, I wouldn't go so far as to say that the Bush era use of that term was a precursor to "membership" targeting. I am not even sure that membership in a terrorist group is sufficient for targeting in current U.S. practice, as you assert. As Kevin's comments suggest, more is typically alleged to be present then simple...
03.08.12 | |

16 Jul

...not have in advanced military technology, asymmetric warfare, and international law. “Reports” from HRW and Amnesty claiming to dissect complex battlefield events are a mix of unverifiable “eyewitness” allegations and speculation based on a few scraps of questionable (at best) information. Look at HRW’s latest bogus “report” on IDF use of drones or Amnesty's 127-pager on Gaza. A few people collecting "testimony" and looking at damage after a battle cannot possibly be able to reach the conclusions claimed by the authors. And the obsessive focus on Israel gets HRW and...
16.07.09 | |

22 May

...Article 5 hearing designed for battlefield-collected captives to contest their status as enemy combatants, lawful or otherwise?? [The CSRTs were knock-off frauds of such hearings, as even military judges have had to concede when finally forced to it in a case or two, as will likely happen again with another captive next month in Guantanamo.] Captives denied POW protection and lawful Article 5 tribunals can hardly appeal to their MILITARY CAPTORS for a fair opportunity to be heard in an Article 5 hearing - which that same military has already...
22.05.10 | |

31 Jul

...forces struggle to address the challenges of the asymmetrical battlefield, it is at least worth contemplating whether such initiatives might just increase respect for the jus in bello during such conflicts, and in so doing mitigate the asymmetry as it relates to the law. Seamus Professor Alford, As it pertains directly to your post, I suspect you would be interested in Dr. Avi Bell's piece, 'Human Rights Watch's Q&A on Lebanon War: Selective and Distorted Application of International Law,' found at NGO Monitor: Promoting critical debate and accountability of human...
31.07.06 | |

31 Jul

...you know he was recruited and trained by al Qaeda (who ran that camp) and can assume he was a soldier unless he can show that he returned to civilian life (and that does not mean that he retreated from a general battlefield defeat). Such a person is subject to detention under the laws of war, but should be treated as a POW. He generally cannot be charged with a crime, because being an enemy soldier cannot be criminalized no matter what nasty things you say about his army. The...
31.07.08 | |

23 Sep

...territory of a state or territory that it occupies or the equivalent of its territory (e.g., its war ship) under the "effective control" test? Does human rights law under the major international treaty, the ICCPR, change anything on the battlefield with respect to persons who are not within the "effective control" of a state? federico sperotto Among the legal requirements to identify a conflict as a NIAC, there is also the territorial one. A NIAC occurs within a State. This is not the case in the US-AQ so called war....
23.09.13 | |

06 Sep

...a US government agent. We went through this in the civil rights movement in the mid-60's. Nothing new under the sun. Best, Ben Ed White Kevin, Could you explain the grounds on which you would permit killing of a U.S. citizen w/o judicial authorization in armed conflict (by which I presume you also mean to include the limiting condition of "on the battlefield" or "in the zone of armed conflict") but not permit the killing, absent judicial authorization, of a U.S. citizen engaged in hostilities against the U.S. but not...
06.09.10 | |

13 Mar

John C. Dehn Bravo, Kevin. I would add only a historical note to your excellent analysis. It was concern for the victims of war, primarily those injured in the Battle of Solferino, that led Henri Dunant to help found the Red Cross. His original goal was to provide care for those wounded in battle but still living (who were strewn across the battlefield and uncared for until Dunant arrived and assembled help), not to prevent their deaths in battle. Hence, Dunant is credited with helping to bring the Geneva Convention...
13.03.13 | |