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Originally posted by justamom
...I know we have the Geneva Convention, but I certainly wouldn't mind a little bit of thumb screwing in our current situation with the Taliban and all those terrorist groups. [/B]
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The Geneva Convention only applies to the military and its conduct under the Law of Armed Conflict. Not everyone's a signatory to the Geneva Convention.
The way the Geneva Convention is currently written, Talibanis and al-Qaeda terrorists are 'enemy combatants'; since they do not have any distinctive way of identifying themselves (such as a uniform), they lose Geneva Convention status and are liable to be shot as spies.