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echo: barktopus
to: Antti Kurenniemi
from: Robert G Lewis
date: 2006-07-12 08:33:48
subject: Re: Shrub (and Mark) slapped in face

From: "Robert G Lewis" 

Ohhhhh, That's a good one 


"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
message news:44b4bff3{at}w3.nls.net...
> "recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples."
>
> I think that's the loophole... 
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
>
> "Phil Payne" 
wrote in message
> news:44b4af9f$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Article 3 of the Geneva Convention DOES apply in Guantanamo, just  as
>> some
>> of us always said it did:
>>
>>
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/washington/12detain.html?hp&ex=1152676800&
en=1049c4d41c477faa&ei=5094&partner=homepage
>>
>> After the Pentagon released the memo, the White House confirmed that it
>> had
>> formally withdrawn part of the 2002 order and accepted that Article 3 now
>> applied to Qaeda detainees. That article prohibits "humiliating and
>> degrading treatment" of prisoners and requires trials
"affording all the
>> judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized
>> peoples."
>>
>> --
>>  Phil Payne
>>  http://www.isham-research.co.uk
>>  +44 7833 654 800
>>
>>
>
>

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