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echo: barktopus
to: Jeff Shultz
from: Bob Ackley
date: 2003-03-24 06:19:58
subject: Is the 101`st soldier an illegal combatant?

Replying to a message of Jeff Shultz to Adam Flinton:

 JS> From: Jeff Shultz 

 JS> Adam Flinton wrote:

 >> Why? Illegal combatant to me....
 >> 
 JS> He was wearing a uniform... that makes him a legal combatant in any
 JS> case.

He wasn't wearing an *enemy* uniform.  If he were an *enemy* combatant
wearing an American uniform he could (and can, I think) be summarily
executed.

 JS> Now if he was doing it at the behest of Al Quaida he could be tried
 JS> for treason.

 JS> If he's smart he'll stick with a murder and a ton of attempted murder
 JS> charges. -- Jeff Shultz

Yep.  But considering what he's accused of, he may not be smart...

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