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To: Ilaine who wrote (87233)11/19/2004 6:01:02 PM
From: D. Long  Read Replies (1) of 793826
 
Which should not be any problem, as far as I can tell. The Geneva Conventions lay out who are enemy combatants, and if a captured person doesn't fit the rules, then they simply don't apply. This means Al Qaeda, for sure.

Problem is that international law is dominated by liberal lawyers, who construe the Geneva Conventions as applying to any and all captives and any and all citizens of occupied territory. Of course the conventions don't apply to terrorists, or arguably to non-state guerrilla forces operating in occupied territory. But look at the flack Gonzalez and the law prof at Boalt caught for saying so.

Derek
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