What does EC stand for?

enemy combatant (US DoD)

This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:

Military and Government

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Samples in periodicals archive:

In June 2003, Bush said al-Marri had vital information about potential attacks, declared him an enemy combatant and ordered him transferred to military custody.

Al-Qaeda suspect enters guilty plea

9781593323257 The detention of unlawful enemy combatants during the war on terror.

The detention of unlawful enemy combatants during the war on terror

The Supreme Court also granted the administration a month's delay in the case of alleged al-Qaida sleeper agent Ali al-Marri, the only person being held as an enemy combatant in the United States.

Judge: Obama gets chance to weigh in on detainees

Previous plans to close the Guantanamo prison have run into fierce resistance from Vice President Dick Cheney and the Justice Department, which have argued that moving "unlawful" enemy combatant suspects to the US would give them undeserved legal rights.

Prisoners in Cuba 'will move to US jails'

Military judge Peter Brownback was forced to throw out the case against Omar Khadr because he was classified as a "enemy combatant" - not an "unlawful enemy combatant.

Loophole for camp inmates

government (3) and several commentators (4) have argued that the Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRTs), which were established to determine the enemy combatant status of Guantanamo detainees and which completed their work in March 2005, properly adjudicated the POW status of the detainees.

Combatant status review tribunals: flawed answers to the wrong ...

We're making sure that an enemy combatant can be defined as something other than a front-line troop," explains Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.

A "compromise" that makes things worse

After invading Afghanistan, we were faced with the question of how to handle enemy combatants who aren't conventional soldiers -- how to extend them humane and fair legal protections, without jeopardizing national security.

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