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That same year, LeAnn sued her record label in an effort to gain full control of the songs she'd recorded, her music videos, photos and other content she'd produced before the age of 18
Even if you buy all the legal falsehoods (that this is an armed conflict, that drugs are war-sustaining objects), the two shipwrecked were in no way, shape or form engaged in active combat activities (the actual legal test). The US Department of Defenses Law of War manual forbids attacks on combatants who are incapacitated, unconscious or shipwrecked, so long as they abstain from hostilities and do not attempt to escape
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Rebecca Ingber, a professor at Cardozo School of Law and a former legal adviser to the US state department, told the Guardian this week: Even if we buy into their framing that the individuals on these vessels are combatants, it would still be unlawful to kill them if they are hors de combat, which means theyre incapacitated It is manifestly unlawful to kill someone whos been shipwrecked. Marcus Stanley, director of studies at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, said the strikes themselves constitute potential war crimes, even before the killing of survivors
