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On the issue of identifying these people as POW's, we find the Pentagon response 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...
But the 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...
The war in Afghanistan is a different kind of conflict than was envisioned in the 1949 Geneva Conventions. In this non-traditional “war on terrorism,” the somewhat antiquated definition of “prisoner of war” should be liberally interpreted. Though al...
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...
The new iMac, which TIME took for an exclusive test run recently and which will be unveiled at the annual Macworld convention in San Francisco this week, could be just the thing. Like many PCs today, the new iMac is built around a flat-panel display. But instead of taking...