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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: zonder who wrote (52369)10/16/2002 12:01:44 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
This whole Guantanamo business feels more than a little dodgy to me, but this is probably another one of those subjects you beat to death before I came around

We did. The American response to the ICRC was that it was precisely according to the Geneva Conventions that Al Qaeda were unlawful combatants, since they wore no uniform and belonged to no army. So America refuses to give them POW status. They give them equivalent treatment, but reserve the right to question them, a right that they would have to forgo if they were POWs.
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