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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (7947)5/21/2004 2:42:43 PM
From: Alan Smithee  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 90947
 
Civilians don't wear uniforms, the Geneva Convention does apply to civilians. Many of the people tortured at Abu were civilians.

The original post to which I replied:

Not if they happen to be holding an RPG, or planting a roadside bomb
That would be a combatant...not a civilian.