President Bush had ruled that the detainees were "illegal combatants" by administrative fiat.

They're illegal combatants, and we can do what we like with them.

If you were an illegal combatant, you didn't deserve the protection of the laws.

The Bush administration has expanded the criteria for classifying captives as illegal combatants.

The reviews determined only 38 detainees were not illegal combatants.

All were sentenced to death as illegal combatants under the German special military penal law of 1938.

If acquitted, he just goes back to being an illegal combatant who can be held for life.

Some of these armed civilians were later arrested and executed as illegal combatants by the Bavarians.

There have been previous cases of illegal combatants who are not protected.

According to the standards of the time, spies were hanged as illegal combatants.