You will recall that American soldiers are being killed in Afghanistan by the Taliban very recently.
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And remember, if you have full POW rights - and whether you're a legal or a illegal combatant, that doesn't matter - you can be detained until the end of hostilities. But it would be to damage the integrity of the convention if you were to give them full POW rights.
government has given them considerable Geneva Convention rights, and rightly so to. Will you allow me to finish my point? Thank you very much indeed. And now they have the cheek to try to arrogate to themselves the protections of combatants.ĪPOSTOLOU: Excuse me. These people deliberately blurred all the distinctions. It's about distinguishing combatants from civilians. Let's not forget the Geneva Convention isn't just about prisoner rights. government calls unlawful or illegal combatants, and that is, as you've said, because they violated the most basic rules of war. You haven't charged them with my terror-related charges.ĪPOSTOLOU: Well, there are two issues there. But nevertheless, is it not a valid criticism to say you've had these guys in custody now, in some instances for close to two years. KOPPEL: Well, what I'm going to say is that the Bush administration has labeled them enemy combatants for that very reason, because many of the Taliban fighters, let alone the al Qaeda, were not wearing uniforms and therefore could not be easily identified as members of a military. And certainly the Bush.ĪPOSTOLOU: No, it's not maybe true. And with regard to interrogating them, the Geneva Convention does allow you to do that. Believe me, they weren't in Afghanistan for the skiing. Secondly, with regard to Guantanamo Bay, these people were detained in the theater of operations of combat in and around Afghanistan. Here is a bit from CNN on, talking about those being detained at Guatanamo Bay, also on the show hosted by Andrea Koppel was Andrew Apostolou: APOSTOLOU: He also, apparently, enjoys playing fast and loose with the actual law, such as the Geneva Conventions. Mohammed who has previously been an advocate for other detainees on terrorism, especially after 9/11. Luckily the 6 were caught before their plot could come to fruition. Today we have a lawyer Sohail Mohammed kept on by the 6 men who were preparing to attack Ft.
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