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...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...
...Qaeda. They have uprooted its European networks, shared intelligence and offered thousands of troops to the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan. But the controversy over Guantanamo has reminded them of the reasons they regarded the Bush administration with suspicion before September 11. Tempers were not cooled by Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's initial reaction last week to concerns over the fate of the detainees: "I do not feel the slightest concern at their treatment; they are being treated vastly better than they treated anybody else." In European eyes, Rumsfeld's response confirmed fears that the U.S. was using its military might...
...medium-level Taliban feel they were betrayed by Omar." Pashtun claims he didn't think Turabi, who is reportedly across the Pakistan border now in Quetta, was on America's wanted list. Pentagon leaders threw up their hands. "We can't verify [the surrender] ever happened," Donald Rumsfeld told reporters Friday. "It's hard to be released if you're never in custody...
...current military detention of Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners in a camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has 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...
...that "the unique attraction of Guantanamo Bay? is not its remote location or shark-infested waters, but that it seems to lie beyond the jurisdiction of America's federal courts, or any other court system for that matter." And like much of the European media, it finds Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's comments that "I do not feel the slightest concern at their treatment; they are being treated vastly better than they treated anybody else" as an unacceptable legal standard. The British magazine offers a thoughtful assessment of the various legal options open to the U.S. and concludes with a cautionary...