>>Don't you find it convenient, from the POV of those who wish to hold them indefinitely without due process, that their legal status is kept in limbo?
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>Which god are you thanking? It must be Bacchus.<g>
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>Due Process is a legal term that is used to describe those rights that belong to U.S. Citizens. The prisoners in Guantanamo are prisoners of war.

According to the U.S. administration, they are not 'prisoners of war'. The administration very carefully made sure they were not defined as 'prisoners of war' in order to circumvent the need to allow them treatment according to the Geneva convention.