Enemy combatant/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Enemy combatant.

The term used by the George W. Bush Administration for individuals it considered ineligible for prisoner of war status rather than "unlawful combatant", the term of the Third Geneva Convention; language explicitly rejected by the Obama Administration