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“Combatants”: Detained But Untried

Posted on February 1, 2010, 10:34 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

Do we want our presidents empowered to imprison people simply for their beliefs?

Tags: Al Quaeda, anti-Muslim bigotry, Barack Obama, Boumediene v. Bush, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, combatants, detainees, Dwight Eisenhower, George Washington, Guantanamo, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, law of war, repatriation, Third Geneva Convention, Ulysses Grant, war
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War Powers, War Lies: Part 7: Captive Taxonomy

Posted on August 5, 2005, 11:36 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

But we had better be prepared for the consequences. Someone, somewhere, is going to try us, quite seriously, for war crimes. And somewhere else, someone is going to commit war crimes against our soldiers because we fail to recognize their own combatants as POWs. And it won’t be pretty.

Tags: Abu Ghraib, Afghanistan, Agincourt, Al Qaeda, Alberto Gonzales, Amnesty International, Amnesty International 2005 Annual Report, Bagram Air Base, Battle of Agincourt, Black Hawk Down, Captain Fluellyn, Captive Taxonomy, Center for Constitutional Rights, Chain of Command, Charleston, Colin Powell, courts martial, Cuban sovereignty, definition of war, detention, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, due process, Erik Saar, Fay-Jones Report, Fluellyn, Fourth Geneva Convention, George W. Bush, Guantanamo, Guantanamo: What the World Should Know, Gulag, habeas corpus, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, Henry V, ICRC, Inside the Wire, International Committee of the Red Cross, international customary law, interrogators, irregular militias, Islamic Terror Syndicate, Israeli intelligence, Jane Mayer, Jay Bybee, John Ashcroft, John Yoo, Judge James Robertson, Kenneth J. Keith, Mark Danner, Michael Durant, Michael Ratner, military commissions, military trials, Muslims, naval brig, New Zealand Court of Appeals, POWs, President George W. Bush, Prisoners of War, Rasul v. Bush, Red Crescent, Red Cross, relocation, rules for military tribunals, S.C., Saudi Arabia, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, separation of powers, Seymour Hersh, Somalia, spies, Study on Customary International Humanitarian Law, Supreme Court, Taliban, the New Yorker Magazine, Third Geneva Convention, torture, Torture and Truth, Vice President Dick Cheney, Vice President Richard Cheney, War Crimes Act, Warrant Officer Michael Durant, William H. Taft IV, William Shakespeare, Yemen
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Posts Tagged ‘Third Geneva Convention’

“Combatants”: Detained But Untried

War Powers, War Lies: Part 7: Captive Taxonomy

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