1.   Members of these units are legal combatants and undertake legitimate military tasks.

2.   Back at the Old Bailey, the sight of legal combatants bowing to one another is a world away from the insults exchanged by lawyers in the Simpson trial.

3.   Not surprisingly, the legal combatants see the issues differently.

4.   He said legal combatants were defined roughly as soldiers who belong to a recognized state military and carry their arms openly.