What happened to those who fought when they were caught? What was the standard procedure? Were they released, sent to another country, detained, or shot?


>>I cannot believe you see this as defending his home. Ridiculous. Did you read my message? He was videotaped making bombs. He was inside a residence that was being investigated for terrorist cells and was given ample opportunity to come outside - they called them out numerous times before the shooting began. From my understanding, U.S. soldiers didn't fire first. The situation is entirely different. U.S. soldiers are there investigating terrorism and rooting out cells and trying to maintain security. If he were in a country that is not under that situation, I would agree with you, but that is not the case. He was not defending his home. He wasn't even at his home. He was with other terrorist members. Would you see it the same way if the soldiers involved were not U.S. soldiers but from one of the other allies? Perhaps British or Polish?
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>>Having written that, his age does mitigate matters. Not only that, the entire detainees not 'enemy combatants' and not prisoners of war was wrong from the start. I've always stated that those caught under those situations and detained should be classified as pows (and treated according to the Geneva conventions) or prosecuted under the law for federal and local crimes. There is also his age to take into consideration.
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>Tracy, can you outline the difference between a terrorist and the resistance in occupied europe during WWII ?