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To: Ilaine who wrote (134226)	5/24/2004 12:52:10 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Non-citizens who are engaged in warfare against the US, captured in wartime and prosecuted outside the territorial jurisdiction of the US are not entitled to the same panoply of rights as a US citizen inside the territorial jurisdiction of the US, but they do have rights. What rights? Under what mandate and authority? I think this is the inherent problem we face CB... The Geneva convention was not written to take into account the existence of such organized non-state actors waging war against state entities. Sure they have "rights".. But are the inalienable, or bestowed upon them by the grace of their captors? Do those who seek to deny Americans the benefit of their own inalienable rights deserving of having their own recognized? And greater legal minds than either you or I have been arguing this since 9/11 rousted out the first terrorists into our hands. I personally believe there are valid arguments being provided on both sides and we're in some very ambiguous territory. Hawk