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To: TimF who wrote (24500)	7/19/2006 2:44:13 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541331

There has never been any issue of putting people captured in war in front of an international tribunal to determine if they are really combatants. You're right, technically, but wrong in substance. International law requires a neutral fact-finding tribunal to make a swift assessment of their status, unless there's no contest. The decisions are made by the country that captures the persons in question, but not arbitrarily nor ad hoc. Thus, you're technically correct that the tribunal isn't international, but wrong that international law doesn't apply to the tribunal. The law is the law, and these treaties are the law of the land. The protesters were right, the administration was wrong.