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To: zonder who wrote (54176)	10/23/2002 12:14:59 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

The detainees are not being detained merely because they are members of armed forces who were captured. There was a winnowing process. Only a few of the captives were brought to Guantanamo for further proceedings. So quibbling over whether the Taliban was the government of Afghanistan is irrelevant. Did you ever read about, or learn about, the Nuremberg Trials in Germany after WWII. Members of the German armed forces were tried for crimes against humanity. A simplistic reading of the Geneva Convention would be to say, "oh, they're military, therefore send them home." The issue is not whether they are military but whether they have committed crimes. If they are terrorists, they are not convered by the Geneva Convention. Think of it as dual status, if you want. You could be entirely right, that the Geneva Convention did cover these people, but they still broke US law. Allegedly.