--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 1/4/07 3:00:48 P.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Well I'm sure those rules that we observe helped all those people in the > > towers and aircraft that died as well as Richard Pearl and Nicholas Berg, > not to > > mention the African embassies. It doesn't protects us any more if we > observe > > the rules and our enemies don't. In fact it shows our enemies, that they > can > > do whatever they want and can in turn expect us to not do like wise. > > > > The embassy bombines and 9/11 were not battlefields. The Geneva Accords > Concerning > the Treatment of Prisoners of War apply to battlefields and similar > conditions. > > > > And your point is... >
That the Geneva Accords concern the treatment of people captured on the battlefield, and EXPLICITLY say that spies and sabateurs can't be treated differently unless they are caught in the act. That's not to say they can't be put on trial for crimes, but that, in the context of being captured on the battlefield, people who you know or suspect were spying/blowig things up, previously, can't be summarrily tortured and exectuted due to crimes commited elsewhere.
