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To: Wayners who wrote (685838)	6/16/2005 5:02:55 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

I don't know if the word 'speedy' is in there anywhere (in the Geneva Protocols that the US largely wrote after the war). But a judicial hearing of some sort is specifically required to decide if a captured person, alleged combattant, captured while not in uniform, is to be perminently afforded the rights pertaining to a POW status. After the war, for some two years Allied Forces continued to be attacked by some German sabateurs who did not wear uniforms.... at that time it was ruled that all that was required to adjudicate the status of these individuals (ie, POW or not) was an in-field military tribunal. To my knowledge, nothing more is required... however, the Protocols also say that UNTIL the prisoner's status has been sorted out in an appropriate legal hearing, they ALL are afforded the protections of POW status. Doesn't see like a very high bar to meet, a simple military justice hearing which can even be held in the field....