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Archive Home > 2009 > March > 14 > Obama abandons term ‘enemy combatant’

Obama abandons term ‘enemy combatant’

By Nedra Pickler / The Bulletin
March 14, 2009

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Friday that it is abandoning one of President George W. Bush’s key phrases in the war on terrorism: enemy combatant.

But that won’t change much for the detainees at the U.S. naval base in Cuba — Obama still....

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