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Originally Posted by weekly
edit: if you are going to call them combatants...then the Geneva Convention applies. One way or another. This combatant thing was a karl rove idea to circumvent that convention and allow torture and detention....like "detainees"...what the fuck is that. If there is a war on terror, then they are prisoners of war...again The Geneva Convention applies.
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You're a little off on your facts. Being held as an 'enemy combatant' was a slick move by the Bush administration to not give the people POW status and therefor the Geneva Convention does not apply to them. They can only be tried by military tribunal and not by a civilian court. The anti-torture rules of the convention also do not apply. Enemy Combatants have no civil rights and no habeas corpus.
President Obama phased out the "enemy combatant" term in march of last year, so this underwear bomber's status will be.... interesting.