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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (131240)	5/4/2004 1:55:47 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Hawkmoon; Re: "That applies to official POWs, not to unlawful combatants, which these detainees were classified as." Here's what Rumsfeld says about your theory: Rumsfeld Visits, Thanks U.S. Troops at Camp X-Ray in Cuba Defenselink.mil, January 2002 ... Rumsfeld told reporters on the flight to Cuba that Taliban and Al Qaeda detainees at the Guantanamo Bay and Kandahar, Afghanistan, facilities "are not POWs" and characterized them instead as "unlawful combatants." He emphasized the detainees are being treated humanely. "Don't forget, he said, "we're treating these people as if the Geneva Convention applied." ... defenselink.mil -- Carl