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2016-12-22 Home Front: WoT

Gitmo Detainee, Held Since 2001, Challenges ‘Indefinite’ Detention In Court

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Posted by Fred 2016-12-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
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#1 VKM

Posted by Shipman 2016-12-22 10:09|| 2016-12-22 10:09|| Front Page Top

#2 "We went to his cell to release him but discovered he had committed suicide. He swallowed his elbow"

Posted by Frank G 2016-12-22 10:12|| 2016-12-22 10:12|| Front Page Top

#3 As I understand the Geneva Convention, and illegal combatant can be given a court martial and then executed if found guilty. Only various elements in the US insisted that the prisoners in Gitmo be given the rights and privileges of POWs.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2016-12-22 12:07|| 2016-12-22 12:07|| Front Page Top

#4 As I understand the Geneva Convention, and illegal combatant can be given a court martial and then executed if found guilty.

It calls for combatants to have identifiable uniform or markings to distinguish them from civilians. Failure to do so makes one an 'illegal combatant' not protected by the Convention. The CM can be held in country and punishment carried out as Skorzeny's boys found out in Belgium. However, these miscreants were deemed more important for intel than being dealt with as illegal combatants. It's like not Mirandizing a perp, you believe the info is more important than the individual. See - time bomb, kidnapping, et al

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-12-22 12:24|| 2016-12-22 12:24|| Front Page Top

#5 In fact by extending GC protections to illegal combatants, as we do in far too many places, you place your own soldiers in danger because now your [future] enemy has no compulsion to follow the GC with your soldiers.

Posted by CrazyFool 2016-12-22 12:46|| 2016-12-22 12:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Just shoot the cocksucker.

Posted by Raj 2016-12-22 13:12|| 2016-12-22 13:12|| Front Page Top

#7 That's what the abbreviation VKM means Raj, Stalins favorite 3 letters.

Posted by Shipman 2016-12-22 17:21|| 2016-12-22 17:21|| Front Page Top

#8 POW is commonly held until eh end of the war. Perhaps they should take it up with Al Queda and convince them to declare peace.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-12-22 20:21|| 2016-12-22 20:21|| Front Page Top

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