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...disappointing. We feel it's not for the US military to just arbitrarily decide who is and is not a POW during the course of an international conflict. Doing so sets a very dangerous precedent for treatment of U.S. prisoners, for example, or UK prisoners. The wording of the Geneva Convention clearly dictates these people are POW's - it's not up to Donald Rumsfeld to determine otherwise...
...immediate purpose for holding the prisoners is not to prepare charges against them; it's to interrogate them in order to more effectively wage the fight against al Qaeda. According them POW status would necessarily impede that process, if not render it impossible. After all, the Geneva Convention obliges a POW to reveal only his name, rank and number, and protects him from any form of duress...
...justice have always been uneasy partners. Last week they clashed spectacularly. The big issue was how the United States squares its outrage at al-Qaeda fighters now in detention with standards of international law it has long espoused. For most Europeans, the virtuous course seemed clearly marked by the Geneva Conventions. In France and Italy, though, murkier struggles between government leaders and recalcitrant judiciaries showed that finding the righteous path can be a matter not just of principle, but of political dispute...
...Call 'em squeamish if you like, but America's European partners in the war on terrorism are increasingly alarmed over those Al Qaeda prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. All across the continent newspapers challenged the U.S. view that the captives fall outside of the Geneva Convention. Britain's Guardian contests the U.S. contention that the men are "unlawful combatants" with a careful reading of the Geneva Convention. And the point is echoed by Richard Goldstone, the respected international jurist and former chief prosecutor of the Hague tribunal. "Either they're prisoners of war, in which case they are entitled...
...First there was Osama air freshener in Chile, then Osama bin Laden candies in Pakistan. Now one of the al Qaeda leader's 53 siblings is planning to turn the family name into a fashion label. Britain's Guardian reports that Geneva-based Yeslam Binladin, who spells his name differently from his notorious brother, had registered the name for a moderately priced fashion range for Arab and European markets long before September 11. And he has no intention of changing his plans. "The name is one of the most famous names in the world," Yeslam's lawyer was quoted...