-Caveat Lector- >>>This seems to go against what the Khazar Alan D has to say. Perhaps he's advocating a body of law that is outside of the American mainstream, something that evolved from Europe, rather than the Middle East. One has to wonder what Alan uses as "code words" that mask his real intentions as well as his thoughts and feelings not forgetting his loyaties. A<>E<>R <<<
From http://www.observer.co.uk/Distribution/Redirect_Artifact/0,4678,0- 636385,00.html }}}>Begin Blair's warning on prisoners Prime Minister tells Bush to tread carefully as opposition grows to treatment of captured Taliban fighters Kamal Ahmed and Peter Beaumont Sunday January 20, 2002 The Observer Tony Blair has warned President George Bush that the treatment of Taliban prisoners being held at the Guantanamo military base threatens to become a 'political issue' which will lead to widespread and damaging criticism of US policies in Afghanistan. Downing Street sources said that although the Prime Minister was 'relaxed' about the treatment of the prisoners - including three people who claim to be British citizens - he was aware of the dangers of political opposition to their treatment growing in Britain and on the continent. In a phone call to Bush last week, Blair said the US had to be aware of European sensitivities. Government sources indicated that the legal rights of the prisoners were as important as their treatment in Camp X-Ray. In a series of follow-up calls between British officials and the White House, Government disquiet at the hawkish tone of US pronouncements on the prisoners was made clear. One senior Whitehall source described Donald Rums feld, the US Defence Secretary, as a 'magnet for trouble'. Tomorrow the Government will make a major announcement on a five-year reconstruction package for Afghanistan in a concerted effort to shore up the coalition behind the American led-bombing of the country which has now las ted for more than 100 days. At a meeting of development ministers in Tokyo, Clare Short, the Secretary of State for International Development, will say that the British Government will commit up to �200 million to the fund. At the same meeting Chris Patten, the European Union's Commissioner for External Affairs, will signal that the EU will donate �1 billion (�600 million) over the next three years, thought to be between 20 and 25 per cent o f the total amount Afghanistan needs. The United Nations and America will both be expected to make large donations. According to Whitehall sources the Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, has been leading efforts to persuade the US that any prisoners must be properly treated under US and international law. 'Jack has been constantly exercised about this issue since it arose,' said the Whitehall source. 'Despite his hard image from his time as Home Secretary he is not happy about this. He has been talking about British concer ns with Colin Powell [the US Secretary of State] but frustratingly it is Donald Rumsfeld who appears to be taking the lead. 'While Jack Straw has been talking to Powell, Rumsfeld has been coming out with these extraordinarily gratuitous remarks. The man is just a magnet for trouble.' Foreign Office officials have told The Observer that, as long as there is enough evidence against them and the charges would stand up in a British court, it would like to see the British suspects extradited to face trial here. The growing outcry over the treatment of al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners was joined yesterday by Justice Richard Goldstone, head of a new taskforce set up by the International Bar Association to examine how international l aw should deal with terrorist groups in the wake of the 11 September attacks. 'At the very least if they are going to be tried they should be tried with a US Federal Court,' Goldstone said. 'What I cannot understand is why the Bush administration is frightened of its own American judges. 'These prisoners are being asked to make confessions without any knowledge of what crimes they may be charged with, which seems to be against every principle of the rule of law.' 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