From: George Sherwood 

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:45:46 +0200, Phil Payne wrote:

>> The Bill of Rights IS IRRELEVANT when it comes to enemy combatants
> captured
>> on the battlefield.
>
> "Enemy combatants" is entirely a neo-con coining, just like
renaming napalm
> to get around treaties.

You couldn't be more wrong.  POW is defined in the Geneva Convention and so
is enemy or illegal combatant.  Look at Article 4 and 5 of the third Geneva
Convention.  If you are an illegal combatant, you don't have the rights of
a POW.

George

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