From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

George Sherwood wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 16:21:39 -0500, Dave Ings wrote:
>
>
>>I'm reading article 4 right now and I do not see any references to either of
>>the terms "illegal combatant" or "enemy
combatant". (Nor do I see the terms
>>in article 5).
>>
>> http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/91.htm
>>
>>Were you thinking of something else?
>
>
> What is defined by the conventions is a legal combatant.  If you are not a
> legal combatant, then the conventions do not apply to you.  That is why
> different terms are used.  During our training we were often just referred
> to as "War Criminal".
>
> George

Or possibly landfill.

Esp if one were in the national security forces of say the Burmese gov.

Does rather ruin the case against Saddam though as the Kurds etc obviously
fall into the same category.

Adam

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