Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 13:46:27 -0700 (MST)
From: snail 
Subject: [azpeace] no they are not really POW's
To: azpeace@yahoogroups.com
Reply-To: azpeace@yahoogroups.com




the government says they look
like prisoners of war but they
really are not prisoners of war
so the government doesnt plan to
obey the law and treat them as
POW's as required by the geneva 
convention. the government says they
are "unlawfull combatants"

and two questions "just who are we
at war with?  Afghanistan? 
the Muslim world? al-Qaida?
anybody with brown skin from the
middle east? the Taliban? Osama
bin Laden?" and "how are we going
to know when we have won or lost
the war were in?"

Arizona Republic, Sat Jan 12, 2002 - Page A14

"20 Afghan prisoners arrive in Cuba"

Los Angeles Times

Washington - The first
clutch of 20 prisoners arrived
Friday at a makeshift prison at
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
in Cuba, four months after the
Sept 11 attacks that touched
off the U.S.-led war on terrorism
and 27 hours after leaving a prison
in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

The first detainee limped off
the Air Force C-141 Starlifter
plane at 1:50 p.m. local time,
bound and shackled, wearing
an orange jumpsuit, turquoise
face mask and a cap with goggles.
The 20 were chosen by the
threat they posed, said Marine
Brig, Gen Michael Lehnert,
commander of the joint task
force

<snip>

U.S. Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeild denied that the
cagelike cells, hoods and
sedatives used on prisoners might
violate international standards,
as charged by the rights 
group Amnesty International.

Lehnert, the general overseeing
the prisoners, said their
existence at Guantanamo
would be "humane but not
comfortable." They would be
free to practice their religion
and given meals consistent
with their Muslim diet, he said.

Although the Pentagon plans
to use the Geneva rules as a
general guide, Rumsfeld said,
the detainees would not fall
under those rules because they
were not uniformed soldiers in
a recognized military. Instead,
they would be treated as 
"unlawfull combatants."

--
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; 
when the government fears the people, there is liberty "
                             Thomas Jefferson

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