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>>You can detain them until the security of the occupying force (or state) is no longer at risk or the cessation of miltiary operations.
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>So it's OK to say "we still don't feel secure" and continue to keep them stashed in jail?
Yes, depending on the conditions they were captured under, AND due to the fact that we still have military forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. Hostilities have not ceased and we have not turned over either to the host nation yet.
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