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Originally posted by roly
the taliban/alqueda are terrorists (execution is about right for them), but under the geneva convention they are prisoners of war. hence you broke the geneva convention far more seriously by not treating them as prisoners of war than by the iraq's showing prisoners on tv. But that's ok it gets the job done. heard the saying "people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones"?
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The Al Qaeda terrorists are one thing, they are being treated as enemy combatants because they all hail from a variety of nationalities, and were not taken as prisoners of war who were defending Afghanistan but as criminals who based their operations in Afghanistan.
Taliban, being that they were in control of Afghanistan that's a different story.