larry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Heald, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 1:36 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: RE: 600 at Guanatanamo bay:US not accountable to any court.
>
>
> To be honest I am not 100% on it either, would need to google
> it but have other stuff going on. From what I remember from
> the rules of land warfare courses spies and saboteurs can be
> summarily executed. Those out of uniform, and without a
> Geneva convention id card (yes you need one of those, look at
> a military ID card and read it, it says Geneva convention
> identification card right on it).
>
> What this says to me is that we would be morally and legally
> protected should we decide to kill all of those on gitmo. No
> trial needed.
>
> The Taliban was not a signatory of the conventions, and
> didn't respect them with our soldiers.
>
> Why are we always expected to not only do the right thing,
> but exceed the commonly held view of what the right thing is?
>
> --
> Timothy Heald
> Web Portfolio Manager
> Diplomatic Security
> U.S. Department of State
> 571.345.2319
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lyons, Larry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 1:32 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: RE: 600 at Guanatanamo bay:US not accountable to any court.
>
>
> If I remember right (and I've been proven wrong about just
> recalling things more than once) there was some debate about
> that one too, apparently one of them was wearing part of a
> Weirmacht uniform when captured. Still what happened was more
> in the lines of a propaganda effort rather than a real war
> crimes court.
>
> larry
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Heald, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 1:24 PM
> > To: CF-Community
> > Subject: RE: 600 at Guanatanamo bay:US not accountable to
> any court.
> >
> >
> > Not in plain clothes it doesn't.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Timothy Heald
> > Web Portfolio Manager
> > Diplomatic Security
> > U.S. Department of State
> > 571.345.2319
> >
> > The opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect those
> > of the U.S. Department of State or any affiliated
> > organization(s). Nor have these opinions been approved or
> > sanctioned by these organizations. This e-mail is
> > unclassified based on the definitions in E.O. 12958.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lyons, Larry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 9:56 AM
> > To: CF-Community
> > Subject: RE: 600 at Guanatanamo bay:US not accountable to any court.
> >
> >
> > Ray,
> >
> > The case in which the German saboteurs were condemned to
> > death is very different. There a lot of evidence that their
> > trial was rigged from the beginning. The federal government
> > at the time needed the propaganda victory and may have
> > railroaded them. While they were guilty, their being in the
> > weirmacht should have accorded them POW status.
> >
> > larry
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 10:42 AM
> > > To: CF-Community
> > > Subject: RE: 600 at Guanatanamo bay:US not accountable to
> > any court.
> > >
> > >
> > > I have to agree with this. (Not the Tim is an idiot part. ;) I've
> > > said this before, and now that I'm getting older I feel like I'm
> > > repeating myself quite often, but didn't we give the Nazis a fair
> > > trial?
> > >
> > > -Ray
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Oi Tim, you idiot. What the US is doing is comparable
> to what the
> > > > Vietnamese did.
> > > >
> > > > Just because the US is making it 'comfortable' for them doesn't
> > > > change the fact it's disgusting and illegal in the eyes of most
> > > > other countries.
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Heald, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Sent: 20 April 2004 14:29
> > > > To: CF-Community
> > > > Subject: RE: 600 at Guanatanamo bay:US not accountable to
> > > any court.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > We're beating and torturing people? Killing prisoners?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > How dare you compare the one to the other. We provide health
> > > > care, religious services and food and shelter. We do not
> > make these
> > > > prisoners work in our fields or factories.
> > > > just, whatever.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > _____
> >
> >
> >
> >
> _____
>
>
>
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