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...screened its al-Qaeda suspects more rigorously and relied less on Afghan bounty hunters before doling out one-way tickets to Cuba. But the Bush Administration was desperate to avert another terrorist attack, and to catch bin Laden. This haste, say human rights activists, led the Administration to disregard Geneva Convention rules for the proper treatment of war prisoners. Meanwhile, a year on, the Guant?namo process has bogged down. Every suspect has been interviewed dozens of times by U.S. intelligence and antiterrorism agencies. Yet not a single prisoner has been brought before a U.S. military tribunal. The Pentagon insists this...
...matter has precisely to do with these four unresolved issues. Here are just two of the four conditions in the petition: 1) That Israel [be] in compliance with United Nations Resolution 242 which calls for withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from occupied territories; 2) In compliance with the Fourth Geneva Convention (Article 49, paragraph 6), Israel cease building new settlements, and vacate existing settlements, in the occupied territories...
...Geneva Convention is the treaty that dictates the rights of individuals in times of war and laws governing warfare...
Although the agenda for the meeting is not yet set, Richardson said she expects discussion to range from how to apply the stipulations of the Geneva Convention to distinguishing between civilians and military personnel to the definition of an appropriate objective of war—many of which are issues raised recently by President Bush’s ongoing war against terror...
Richardson emphasized that the meeting would deal with interpretation—not with changing actual wording of the Geneva Convention rules...