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To: jlallen who wrote (34987)	1/14/2004 7:08:24 AM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

Read the news article again you lying village idiot. You have no clue what so ever! They demolished homes of relatives. It said the actions "rather appeared to be for the purpose of punishing or compelling the cooperation of the family [ed: what the Nazis used to do] in question." In two incidents, it added, "U.S. forces also reportedly detained close relatives of a person that the U.S. was attempting to apprehend. In these cases the individuals detained were themselves not suspected of responsibility for any wrongdoing." Destroying civilian property as a reprisal or deterrent "amounts to collective punishment, which is prohibited by the 1949 Geneva Conventions." Detaining people in order to compel actions from the opposing side "amounts to hostage taking, which is a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions: in other words, a war crime."