Guantanamo send the wrong signal

Karl LeubaPost Master

The head of the German Foreign intelligence agency, Ernst Uhrlau, says "Guantanabo Sends teh Wrong Signal to the Muslim World."

Uhrlau says, "Both the Taliban and Al-Qaida have, without a doubt, managed to revitalize themselves as transnational networks. But the fact that al-Qaida has re-grouped doesn't mean that there is once again a classic centralized structure like the one that existed before Sept. 11, 2001. The organization has adapted itself. A number of groups in North Africa have recently joined al-Qaida, hoping to benefit from its brand name and thus be regarded as major players by the media. Nowadays al-Qaida is much more of an ideological umbrella organization which has the strategic objective of triggering conflict in the Muslim world with non-Muslim regimes. The focus of the struggle is always in the region in question."
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,475676,00.html

5/12/073:01 PM

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interventorPost Master

Traditionally, and by the Rules of Land Warfare, the Geneva Conference of 1949, the subsequent five conventions and three defining protocols, combatants in civilian dress are subject to death after a senior officer verifies the status.

Because some of the inmates at Gitmo can't be verified, I am not for their execution. We have 84 of about 375 total we would like to release. But, their native countries including Yemen, France, Germany and others refuse to accept them. Thirty we release rejoined the terrorists and, subsequently were killed or recaptured. Now, what would you do with the lot of them? Even Cuba has said they would return them if they escaped.

5/12/073:24 PM

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Southern PatriotHall of Famer

quote:
Originally posted by interventor:
Traditionally, and by the Rules of Land Warfare, the Geneva Conference of 1949, the subsequent five conventions and three defining protocols, combatants in civilian dress are subject to death after a senior officer verifies the status.

Because some of the inmates at Gitmo can't be verified, I am not for their execution. We have 84 of about 375 total we would like to release. But, their native countries including Yemen, France, Germany and others refuse to accept them. Thirty we release rejoined the terrorists and, subsequently were killed or recaptured. Now, what would you do with the lot of them? Even Cuba has said they would return them if they escaped.

You are correct about the conventions. Any combatant in civilian dress should go before a tribunal, tried based on the evidence, and be summarily executed.

5/12/073:36 PM

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interventorPost Master

Doesn't even take a commission, just a responsible officer to verify the status of capture.

5/12/074:27 PM

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Southern PatriotHall of Famer

quote:
Originally posted by interventor:
Doesn't even take a commission, just a responsible officer to verify the status of capture.

True, but the left wing media would throw a fit without the tribunal.

5/12/074:41 PM

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Karl LeubaPost Master

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quote:
Originally posted by interventor:
Doesn't even take a commission, just a responsible officer to verify the status of capture.

True, but the left wing media would throw a fit without the tribunal.

You are ABSOLUTELY WRONG Southern Patriot. http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/pdf/rules_warfare-1940.pdf
that is 134 pages, Army Manual 27-10, publication date 1940, reissued 1947.
ALL OFFENSES REQUIRE A TRIAL. YOUR SUMMARY EXECUTION NONSENSE IS A WAR CRIME.

5/13/071:19 PM

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