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Originally posted by bilmore
I Bin Gone, but has anyone thrashed this over yet?
"To qualify as prisoners of war under the Geneva Convention, detainees must satisfy all four of the following criteria (the quotations here come from the Convention itself):
***The detainees in question must have been “commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates”
***They must have worn “a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance”
***They must have carried their arms “openly”
***And they must have conducted their operations “in accordance with the laws and customs of war”
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I watched the Senate hearings where Rummy and Myers testified. According to them, there are two provisions (articles?) of the Geneva conventions. One applies to POWs and one applies to those detained for criminal conduct. According to them, the Iraqi detainees that were in the pictures fell into the detained for criminal conduct category.
I don't know anything else about this. Just remember them making this distinction during the hearings.
