>>>So I guess the question is, is he an Al Qaeda "soldier", which some would say makes him a prisoner of war, or just an average street thug?
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>>You seem to be missing the message others are trying to deliver. The real question is how the heck would we know, if there is no trial, no defense and worst of all, not even charges?
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>I get it.
>But if they classify him as a prisoner of war, do prisoner of war have legal rights other then the one given to them by the Geneva Convention?

That's exactly why they won't classify them as POW's. They don't want the Geneva convention to apply to them. These people have no rights at all, and that's the way the U.S. administration wants it.