In 2006, Congress expanded that authorization to also allow such trials during a “contingency operation,” which federal law defines as virtually any overseas deployment (and some domestic ones) where troops are or may become involved in operations against an “enemy of the United States or against an opposing military force.” Ali can’t be tried in a civilian U.S. court because the usual hook for civilian criminal jurisdiction in such cases, the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act (MEJA), doesn’t allow trials of “host country nationals.“ Thus, Ali became the first civilian contractor to be tried by a U.S. court martial under the 2006 amendment.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 02:35:46 +0000
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