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To: Win Smith who wrote (17520)	1/29/2002 4:32:02 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) of 281500

That is simply wrong. Anyone who bothers to read the convention will see that those tests apply to "resistance movements" outside a country's armed forces. The tests do not apply to military units within a nation's armed forces — such as all Taliban soldiers and perhaps also Qaeda's "Arab Brigade" in the Taliban army. Under the Geneva Convention, all these fighters within the Afghan armed forces are P.O.W.'s whether or not they wear uniforms or obey the rules of war. I can see it now... The Crips, Bloods, Aryan Nations, and oh so many other organized criminal elements that prey upon civilians, will now suddenly have to be granted POW status. Heck.. Patty Hearst would have had to be given POW status using this logic, since she was part of the Sybionese Liberation Army. THE ONLY WAY I CAN SEE JUSTIFYING POW STATUS is for those who are shown to have NOT targeted attacks against unarmed civilians, but only military targets. These guys were terrorists.. Criminals who unwilling to directly confront a military force of the country they claimed to be at war with. They specifically targeted defenseless civilians. I remember when some members of the Aryan Nations offshoot, "The Order", killed a Jewish radio show host. Those who were not later shot committing other acts, were sent to prison as the criminals they are. Why is this argument so difficult for people to understand?? Give these thugs legal status as combatants and you'll have every criminal group from the Mafia, to the Colombian cartels, trying to assert POW status for themselves... Geesuzz.... Is that what we want?? Hawk

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