Reporting from Guantanamo Bay: UNLAWFUL Combatants are likewise subject to capture and Detention, but in addition they are subject to TRAIL and Punishment by MILITARY TRIBUNALS for acts which render their belligerency unlawful. The SPY who secretly and without Uniform passes the Military Lines of a belligerent in time of WAR, seeking to gather military information and communicate it to the enemy, or an enemy combatant who without uniform comes secretly through the lines fro the purpose of waging war by destruction of life or property, are familiar examples belligerents who are generally deemed not to be entitled to the status of prisoners of War, but to be offenders against the LAW of WAR subject to the TRAIL and Punishment by Military Tribunals. (Emphasis Added)
UNLAWFUL Combatants are likewise subject to capture and Detention, but in addition they are subject to TRAIL and Punishment by MILITARY TRIBUNALS for acts
which render their belligerency unlawful. The SPY who secretly and without Uniform passes the Military Lines of a belligerent in time of WAR, seeking to gather military information and communicate it to the enemy, or an enemy combatant who without uniform comes secretly through the lines for the purpose of waging war by destruction of life or property, are familiar examples belligerents who are generally deemed not to be entitled to the status of prisoners of War, but to be offenders against the LAW of WAR subject to the TRAIL and Punishment by Military Tribunals.
(Emphasis Added)
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