Hi,

>The 'unlawful combantant' reason for detaining the prisons at Guantanamo Bay is flawed. The Haque convention defines a legal combatant as
>
>To be commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;
>To have a fixed distinctive emblem recognizable at a distance;
>To carry arms openly; and
>To conduct their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.
>
>This means that both Delta Force and the CIA (the paramilitary division for sure) could be held by enemy states as unlawful combatants.

You need to expand a bit on your argument. The definition you give obviously means the CIA etc are not lawful combatants - but that, in itself, does not make them, any more than it makes me, a 'combatant' of any sort.

Regards,
Viv