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...another attack. Behind the scenes, government lawyers debated the meaning of "any means at our disposal." Even before the U.S. went into Afghanistan in October 2001, State Department officials and Pentagon military lawyers were incensed that political appointees wanted to exempt captured Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters from the Geneva Conventions. "[Secretary of State Colin] Powell was irate over it," recalls a former State Department official. "He was arguing, 'You can't not follow the Geneva Conventions...
...apply in a war against terrorists. Top officials agreed. In February 2002, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said, "The reality is, the set of facts that exist today with al-Qaeda and the Taliban were not necessarily the set of facts that were considered when the Geneva Convention was fashioned...
That month President Bush declared that U.S. soldiers would abide by the spirit of the Geneva Conventions but that neither Taliban nor al-Qaeda captives held in Guantanamo Bay would actually qualify as prisoners of war. The conclusion that al-Qaeda members were not subject to the treaty made sense to many international lawyers...
Europe's budget airline passengers have become used to seats that don't recline and onboard bottled water that costs extra. Coming soon: the no-frills terminal. As early as 2006, airports in Marseille and Geneva plan to open terminals catering to low-cost airlines; Kuala Lumpur and Singapore may follow. "Don't expect carpeting," warns Loïc Chovelon, spokesman for Marseille Provence Airport, which plans to spend up to 314.5 million to convert an old cargo facility into a spartan self-service terminal. Passengers will collect their tickets from automated booths and, after clearing security, tag their...
This year, in a lab in Geneva, Gabrielse developed novel ways to produce antihydrogen atoms using lasers, map their internal structures and measure their speeds—three techniques which have never been used before...