[The Government] has made clear, however, that, for purposes of this case, the `enemy combatant' that it is seeking to detain is an individual who, it alleges, was `part of or supporting forces hostile to the United States or coalition partners' in Afghanistan and who `engaged in an armed conflict against the United States' there.
Leahy explains the narrow scope of the Hamdi decision regarding enemy combatants.
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