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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (2168)	1/13/2003 3:56:38 PM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

No, NO, NOOO!! None of them meet the requirements so stated in the Geneva Convention Really? The link you posted said the Taliban were POWs and Al-Qaeda maybe was not. Besides, you are talking about the Article 4.2 of the Geneva Convention re insignia etc. There is also: 4. 3. Members of regular armed forces who profess allegiance to a government or an authority not recognized by the Detaining Power. ... and: 4.6. Inhabitants of a non-occupied territory, who on the approach of the enemy spontaneously take up arms to resist the invading forces, without having had time to form themselves into regular armed units, provided they carry arms openly and respect the laws and customs of war. They are unlawful combatants from known and unknown locations/nationalities who have taken up arms against the US and it's citizens. You might find it very difficult to argue that the people living in a country who took up arms to defend their home from your invading army have "taken up arms against the US and its citizens" <g> Btw, Rudolf Hess, formerly Hitler's right hand man, was held incommunicado from 1941 until the post WWII Nuremburg trials in 1946 Possibly because the Geneva Convention entered into force in 1950.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (2168)	1/13/2003 4:25:21 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 15987

Military regulations are not nearly as powerful as Executive Orders, which is what Bush laid out last Spring My favorite example of how this works was a Fictional "General Black," in a Novel about Korea, reading a JAG Colonel the riot act by telling him, " I don't know how you got to be a Colonel without learning this, but 'Regulations' are for the 'Guidance' of the Commander. I don't 'administer' this Corps, I run it! If you don't understand the difference, you should be in charge of a quartermaster mess kit repair platoon in El Paso!"