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"TinCanMan" wrote in message ...
They are combatants, having been taken on the battlefield or having been found hiding among the populace. According to what passes as the laws of war, they will be detained in camps for such and will be released when hostillities are over. You don't get to decide when that is, the detaining power does. In other words, you're essentially talking about POWs. POWs have rights, that are being denied those held at GITMO. Now, I realise that the US government has decided they have found a legal loophole that allows them to deny these people POW status, but no lawyer alive can change the thruth. It is not relevant that many of these people weren't wearing any kind of uniform when captured, as uniforms were not in use in Afganistan. Inconvenient to our Western criteria, but that is the way of that country. If you don't like it, complain to your elected officials. I've told mine I was happy with the present status. I don't, and I don't have to, as they already agree with me. Unfortunately, the US government couldn't care less about that. Rob |
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