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To: TobagoJack who wrote (64174)	5/24/2005 1:40:14 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

TJ You ask what's going on in Guantanamo Bay concentration camp? That's easy. It's a camp to put those who are probably opposed to the USA and can be safely disappeared without too much political flak from allies. It's also a leverage mechanism to bring about the defeat of other Al Q types [or brand equivalents]. But you know that. <Later Abbasi was kicked out of the proceedings for engaging in a heated debate about international law with the tribunal president, who snaps, "I don't care about international law. I don't want to hear the words international law again." > The tribunal president is right. International law has nothing to do with it. The USA has laws and the Supreme Court has extended a bit of habeas corpus type human rights to areas controlled by the USA military. What the USA wants to do, the USA does. The rest of the world is too pathetic to form a reconstituted United Nations, or new one if the present one can't be redesigned due to USA, China or other veto. So the eons-old dog eat dog rules remain as the modus operandi. What's going on at Gitmo is the USA is dealing with the captives as they feel like, which is about what Islamic Jihadis do with those they catch. But the prisoners of the USA are almost all much better off than those of Islamic Jihad, who tend to get their heads hacked off, live [in a manner of speaking] on tv. I know which is more offensive - a bit of Koran denigration or head-hacking. Some of the prisoners are probably worth head-hacking in reprisal for each victim the Islamic Jihadis head-hack. Make an announcement on Al Jazeera; "Each time Islamic Jihad hacks a head, we will hack two of the Islamic Jihad prisoners' heads; we will see who has most heads to hack." The Geneva Conventions and rules of war and prisoner handling were for pragmatic reasons to do with self-interest. Islamic Jihad doesn't seem interested in those ideas. They should be reminded of the advantages of such ideas. Whining about Koran page flushing is pathetic when American flags are burned and innocent humans are hacked. A lot of Americans consider the flag sacred and as sacred as the Islamic Jihadis consider the Koran, I'd guess. Mqurice