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The designation of terrorists as unlawful combatants is a recent phnomenon cooked up by the Bush administration. The term is intended to apply to saboteurs, spies or other agents of an enemy nation during a war. Obviously, terrorists don't quite make it into this category as they aren't really agents of any particular nation. This is probably the only status that leaves an individual completely at the mercy of the military, which explains the Administration's desire to apply it across the board.
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