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To: Ilaine who wrote (24505)	7/20/2006 10:29:42 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541347

International law requires a neutral fact-finding tribunal to make a swift assessment of their status The Third Geneva convention requires a competent tribunal to determine if someone should have POW status if there is any doubt. In the case of capturing Al Qaeda giving them POW status would be giving them more protection under international law not less. It does not say that anyone who doesn't have POW status must be released, and there is a long tradition in international law that spies, pirates and such do not get protection as POWs under international law, but there is no requirement under international law to immediately release them. The idea of "illegal combatants" was not made up by the Bush administration.