No, international law doesn't have to be dumped because of al-Qaida
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1746816,00.html
The Geneva conventions may have been written for a postwar world but
the fine print allows for every eventuality
Jonathan Freedland
Wednesday April 5, 2006
The Guardian
What would the sober-minded Washington press corps make of the
treatment their secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, and her British
counterpart, Jack Straw, have received in the British press this last
week? Where US newspapers favour long disquisitions on the state of
geopolitics and the balance of forces in the Gulf, the British papers
have been getting steamed up over the Jack and Condi love-in.
Several, including the Guardian, ran photo love stories - with speech
bubbles imagining their private thoughts and secret longings. Here was
yesterday's offering from the Sun, on hearing that America's top
diplomat had made the foreign secretary a most generous offer while the
two were airborne. "Jack felt a knot in his stomach as she gestured
towards her cabin and invited him to make himself comfy in her bed. As
he slipped into the sheets, she left to bed down on the floor and
Jack's heart sank. Had he misread the signs?"
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