Sentence examples for legitimate combatants from inspiring English sources

Foreign Affairs reported that contractors were involved in 36% of cases in the Abu Ghraib incidents; and the recent release of Peter Moore was linked to the discovery by the Guardian that his four contractor guards were killed because they were seen as legitimate combatants.

All soldiers must "positively identify" a person whom they intend to kill as a legitimate combatant.

Three principles established by the conventions generally govern conduct during war: (1) targets should include only combatants and legitimate military and industrial complexes; (2) combatants should not use unjust methods or weapons (e.g., torture and genocide); and (3) the force used should be proportionate to the end sought.

"For too long, the Obama administration has not been holding countries receiving US military munitions accountable in the Middle East," said Paul. "It is no secret that Saudi Arabia's record on strictly targeting combatants and legitimate military targets in Yemen has been questionable".

The concept of "fighting from barracks" or the "remote warrior" raises such questions as whether a person operating the drones – sometimes from thousands of miles away and "walking the streets of his home town after a shift" – is a legitimate target as a combatant.

The presidential authority to kill terrorists defines operatives of Al Qaeda as enemy combatants and thus legitimate targets for lethal force.

Judge Randolph, who wrote the decision, cited the following reasons for the legality of the military commission: #Military commissions are legitimate forums to try enemy combatants because they have been approved by Congress.

By doing so he made himself a combatant and a legitimate target of an act of war.

Journalists are now seen by many combatants, especially jihadis, as legitimate targets and valuable propaganda tools, alive or dead.

Using such broad definitions to determine who was a "combatant" and therefore a legitimate target allowed Obama administration officials at one point to claim that the escalation of drone strikes in Pakistan had not killed any civilians for a year.

Simply asserting that one had a legitimate overriding intention (killing an "enemy combatant"), and that this renders moot the predictable if not inevitable consequences (the deaths of non-combatants), is repugnant to reason and universal human values.