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...terrorism stepped right up to the chain-link doors of the cells holding Taliban and Al-Qaeda captives at Guantanamo. As Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld walked into Camp X-Ray, a detainee who had just finished washing his face wrapped his towel over his hair in the manner of Arab headwear. A U.S. military police guard told him to take it off, worried that weapons - like the rocks Guantanamo brass suspect the detainees may be using to write covert notes of revolt to one another - could be hidden inside the towel. But Rumsfeld, who arrived in the same white military...
...part to television, computers and video games. According to a recent Nielsen report, kids between the ages of 2 and 11 watch an average of 20 hours of TV per week, an activity that doesn't burn many calories and tends to encourage snacking by exposing kids to all manner of food and beverage advertising. Simply turning off the tube can help kids keep off the excess weight...
...raised a number of questions concerning the American government’s commitment to preserving the civil rights of Afghani detainees. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld made a less-than-reassuring statement that the Pentagon intends to “for the most part, treat them in a manner that is reasonably consistent with the Geneva conventions, to the extent they are appropriate.” More certainty than this is needed. The U.S. must commit to treating the prisoners of this war on terrorism in a manner consistent with established international standards...
Treating these detainees in the same manner as prisoners of war would not exempt them from being prosecuted for crimes committed outside the laws of war. Any Taliban fighters—who are even more clearly members of an organized fighting force—connected to atrocities perpetrated against the Afghani people or elsewhere should be tried for crimes against humanity by an international tribunal. Any al Qaeda prisoners—as well as al Qaeda members arrested anywhere in the world—who are connected to terrorist actions should be tried in civilian courts for their actions...
...irresponsible of the police union to intervene in this manner and to comment on a case that is still pending. The union’s interest is in the swift dispensation of justice, not its obstruction. It is unfortunate that it took a federal case—and an injured student—to make that clear...