http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2265447,00.html
July 11, 2006
White House announces Geneva Conventions U-turn
By Sam Knight and agencies
All detainees held by American forces across the world, including those
imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are now entitled to protection
under the Geneva Conventions, the White House announced today.
The striking reversal of policy comes less than two weeks after the US
Supreme Court ruled that a system of tribunals set up to try the
Guantanamo Bay detainees was illegal and that the Bush Administrationn
had over-reached its executive powers.
In the months after the September 11 attacks, President Bush declared
that the new, border-less conditions of the War On Terror meant that
those fighting the US were "illegal enemy combatants" rather than
traditional soldiers in the uniform of national armies.
A memo written by the US Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, in January
2002 set out the legal architecture of the campaign against terrorism
and said that the need for rapid interrogation to prevent further
attacks rendered the Geneva Conventions "quaint" and "obsolete".
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They're scared shitless that they're gonna get their asses prosecuted
for war crimes.
Harry
(see all of Harry Hope's excellent posts as they break, put this link
in your browser, use it, this is a search on google groups, on the
author Harry Hope sorted by date... nothing fancy):
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=&start=0&scoring=d&enc_author=-nIhFBQAAACtBOUGAhN9cSve8yYdFJBuOPANdqfI6prRsqjc7uCt1A&
With history moving so fast these days you might also want to sort
Harry Hope's posts by "relevance" particulary if the lies and
misdirection that we are all being sujected to by the extensive Bush
Crime Family Propagand machine are confusing you. Using the "sort by
relevance" option has a way of letting you take in the big picture.
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=&start=0&enc_author=-nIhFBQAAACtBOUGAhN9cSve8yYdFJBuOPANdqfI6prRsqjc7uCt1A&
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