>Hi,
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>>The 'unlawful combantant' reason for detaining the prisons at Guantanamo Bay is flawed. The Haque convention defines a legal combatant as
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>>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.
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>>This means that both Delta Force and the CIA (the paramilitary division for sure) could be held by enemy states as unlawful combatants.
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>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.

Sorry about that. That was just my point. The Bush Admin says that the Al-queda are not lawful combants, therefore they Geneva conventions don't apply. This sets a dangerous precendent for the Delta Force and the CIA paramilitary unit since they also fit that same definition of not being a lawful combatant. This puts US military and intelligence personel at risk since some unfriendly countries could hold them without trial as well.