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To: The Philosopher who wrote (7025)	2/19/2004 5:02:23 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

Do I understand you correctly, that you believe that captured al Qaeda deserve the treatment of POWs? First and foremost, the past couple of posts were not about "beliefs". It is the Geneva Convention that clearly defines what a POW is. I pasted the relevant points of Article 4 in a previous post, please take a look. My point is that the prisoners of Guantanamo who have been captured in Afghanistan while figthing the US invasion of the country are POWs as defined in the Geneva Convention. [It does not apply to Al-Qaeda members captured in Berlin with wires and bombs in a hotel room. I hope the difference is clear.] As an important consideration: YOU don't know these people are ALL Al-Qaeda, sworn to blow up any American they ever encounter if they possibly can. None of us will ever know until they have the chance to state their case. In fact, it looks like quite a few of those imprisoned in Guantanamo were NOT Al-Qaeda and were released after TWO YEARS of imprisonment. If they had access to tribunals before, they would not have to pass two years of their lives in some military prison in Guantanamo. Wouldn't that be better?