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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (107865)7/24/2003 7:52:54 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
nationalreview.com

To rebut these allegations, let's note that in Afghanistan, U.S. forces captured terrorist elements and followed the terms of the Geneva Convention. They haven't filmed al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in close-ups with bullets in their heads. It's one thing for the media to film dead fighters and soldiers in the battlefield, quite another to film and broadcast corpses in the custody of the Iraqi regime. It's one thing to show prisoners before and as they are arrested, quite another to film an interrogation session in which subjects are humiliated. The American forces' handling of irregular militias in Afghanistan exceeded the requirements of the Geneva Convention; the Iraqis' treatment of our troops has flouted it.

oops
what was that about showing close ups with bullet holes?

"The constant replay of the graphic images on Sunday was a flagrant violation of the Geneva Convention. "

hmmmmmm
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