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The manual pushes aside the George W. Bush-era label of “unlawful enemy combatant” for al Qaeda and the like. The new term of choice: “unprivileged belligerent.”
An eye-catching section deals with a definition of journalists and how they are expected to stay out of the fight.
The manual defines them this way: “In general, journalists are civilians. However, journalists may be members of the armed forces, persons authorized to accompany the armed forces, or unprivileged belligerents.”
So Washington can decide if a foreign journalist documenting the war crimes of the USA or its vassal regimes (e.g. Ukraine) is a legitimate target for extermination. As we have seen in Guantanamo Bay there is no due process so the journalist cannot defend himself in any way a priori and a posteriori.
This policy is totalitarian to the core. Even during the Cold War this sort of grotesque 1984 policy was not practiced.
