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Maybe it's my medicine, maybe just the migraine, but, what is the difference between "enemy combatant" and POW? Would "enemy combatant" make him fall under a different set of rules, such as the Hague Convention? If so, then he's really screwed, because by that set of rules, from what I understand, there are no rules governing what happens to him. I would like to think that morals apply there, but my understanding runs to this; they can run him up the flag pole by the short hairs every morning, if that's what they want to do. I actually can't see why he, and others of the Taliban that have been captured, don't fit into that category anyway. Just a point to ponder. After all, they blend right in with the civilians, until they blow up a market place, or drive a car bomb into an embassy. Typical guerilla warfare tactics, which makes them guerillas, which means that the Geneva Conventions don't apply. Even if they did, there's nothing in them that says we have to give him a trial. Paraphrasing; Held until the end of the conflict. If it lasts 50 years, or 1 more, he'd be incarcerated, legally, by the rules set forth in the Geneva Conventions. He fits one or the other category. If he's simply an enemy combatant, then the Hague covers him, if he's an enemy soldier, then the Geneva Conventions do, and either way, nothing calls for a day in court. Am I interpreting them too literally?
To me it's more like somebody wants to slam the US, and this is a perfect excuse. I don't know what the truth is about what's going on in Gitmo, but, all things being equal, neither does anybody else here. For all I know, he could be right, but he could be telling a big story to get some publicity, and some sympathy from a world that's more than glad to point fingers, and say "Look what the Devil US is doing now". Be that as it may, hey, whether he's legally entitled to a day in court or not, let him have one. However, if the results are that he's to be hung at sunset, from the highest tree in the area, I'm expecting to hear how evil the US was for executing a fine man, husband and father. Keep in mind, I have read the accounts of how he abandoned his family to join the Jihad, and the world can protest his demise to their hearts content, just be aware, some of us will know the truth.
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Let's try this approach: Seek Confessions. Announce to the whole world that we will be seeking confessions from these supposed Jihadists. They will have to lie about their cause for Allah, or confess to crimes.
Mr. Accused Terrorist, are you on a Jihad against the U.S. and Israel, and were you in Afghanistan training and/or fighting with the Taliban in pursuit of that Jihad? If they say yes, we imprison them. If they say no, we send them home -- where as shamed denouncers of their faith, they will be punished accordingly. Send them back to the land of an eye for an eye and ululating bloodthirsty robed women chanting for their men to stone people to death. Hmmm... Looks like they're screwed either way if we do that. Would that work? (Just tossing out ideas here.) Quote:
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The koran says that it's okay for a muslim to lie against, or steal from infidels, so he could just as easily be welcomed back as the clever hero who deceived the great satan, and rejoin the jihad as a shining example for the other mujahedeen. That's why i say releasing Hicks is no option, making him disapear seems the best option.
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