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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (115026)	9/16/2003 6:56:25 PM
From: aladin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Jacob, Two quick points and then off to batten down the yard/house etc for the coming festivities (aka Isabel): We would stop "rendering" them, handing them over to nations who we know torture and kill prisoners This would mean that we couldn't give them to their home countries or Afghanistan. Imagine what Russia would do with the Chechens, SA with their folks etc. The only ones who care are Australia and US liberals. Britain makes a fuss because they don't have a death penalty, but has a long history of killing terrorists while capturing them (IRA etc). On the FP point I agree (it would be a benefit). The counterpoint is that our own rules prohibit interrogation of POW's and much was learned from these men. Illegal combatent opened up legal loopholes. Bagram is still an open investigation - these take time in our society. We don't do summary executions like Mao (whose tactics you seem to admire). And please note that the society I live in, is substantialy different from the one that whitewashed Vietnamese atrocities. John