This execution can be carried out lawfully under the current provisions of the laws of war.
They are an appropriate venue for trying detainees for violations of the laws of war.
The operation was conducted in a manner fully consistent with the laws of war.
The laws of war are very complex and are contained in extensive legal documents and conventions.
As revolutionary as it is, the Internet does not make centuries-old laws of war obsolete or irrelevant.
The main purpose of international laws of war is to punish the evil and protect the innocent.
He's also taught the laws of war at West Point, and he joins us in our studio.
Some members of my party say the battle has no geographic limitations and the laws of war apply.
Behind the controversy is a change not in the laws of war but in the means of waging it.
Both in boot camp and in predeployment training, Marines receive lectures on cultural sensitivity and the laws of war.
The drafters of the Geneva Conventions understood that the laws of war are quickly abandoned by a desperate army.
NATO's behaviour, as well as Mr Milosevic's, is subject to the laws of war and may yet be investigated.
Yet the more fundamental argument that armed drones somehow breach the laws of war does not, at present, stand up.
The second category of cases involves detainees who violate the laws of war and are therefore best tried through military commissions.
The present documentation of the laws of war are based on customary international law that has been around for thousands of years.
Well, under the current laws of war, that is exactly what can befall a belligerent or combatant who doesn't fall into legal POW status.
Diplomatic sources say they want to change the military culture in rebel groups, to produce fighters who respect the laws of war and human rights.
This national defense measure is deeply rooted in the venerable laws of war and was reaffirmed by the Supreme Court in the 2004 Hamdi case.
Alito suggested Hamdan should wait until his trial is over before questioning whether charging him with conspiracy violates the laws of war, as his lawyer contends.
It would have no human being physically pulling the trigger but would be programmed to comply with the international laws of war and rules of engagement.
The Afghan Defence Ministry's spokesman, General Zahir Azimi, welcomed the MoD's announcement and underlined the need for British and Nato forces to respect the laws of war.
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has requested from the Government of Switzerland permission to become a party to the latest international conventions on the humanitarian laws of war.
Other critics insist that the practical questions faced during wartime are simply too complex to be handled by a robot, even one carefully programmed to follow the laws of war.
Mr. DAN COLLINS (Former Deputy Associate Attorney General): It would discourage combatants from complying with the laws of war if they could claim its protections without having to obey its obligation.
Writing for the Court's five justice majority, Justice John Paul Stevens said that the Constitution gives Congress, not the president, the authority to make rules concerning captured prisoners and implementing the laws of war.
The work of the Catholic theologians drew upon traditions stretching back to the ancient world that would have considered terrorists to be hostis humani generis, the enemy of all mankind, who merited virtually no protections under the laws of war.
Mr Ashcroft said there was legal authority "under the laws of war and clear Supreme Court precedent, which establishes that the military may detain a United States citizen who has joined the enemy and has entered our country to carry out hostile acts".
For this reason, of fundamental importance to humanitarian law, the Geneva Conventions limited combatant status and prisoner-of-war protections only to those irregular forces that (1) wear uniforms, (2) carry their arms openly in all military operations, and (3) obey the laws of war.
But the administration's opponents point to changes in the laws of war under the Geneva Conventions since World War II, and they contend that because of those changes, the U.S. did not use military tribunals in the half century that followed, not even against guerilla fighters of the Vietcong.
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