Well, I just read a news article where it says that americans have created a detention camp inside Iraq similar to the one in Guantanamo bay. Reports say of people being tied up and with their mouths muzzled. While there was some disagreement earlier whether the afghani fighters were terrorists or a regular army, as their government wasn't recognized by any country except Pakistan and SA, the Iraqi military and civilians clearly aren't terrorists, so any detention camps like the one currently existing are a clear violation of Geneva conventions. But hell, the US doesn't care about the UN, why should it care about puny Geneva conventions then?

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http://observer.co.uk/international...,963108,00.html

Anyone remember Rumsfeld appearing on TV saying how important it was that the 5 US prisoners held by the Iraqis were treated according to the Geneva convention? Tit.

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Originally posted by Renegade http://observer.co.uk/international...,963108,00.html Anyone remember Rumsfeld appearing on TV saying how important it was that the 5 US prisoners held by the Iraqis were treated according to the Geneva convention?

Yea pretty hypocritical. I wonder why it hasn't been aired on more major news sources such as bbc or reuters. It would be nice to receive additional concurrence from more than 1 journalist. At either rate it's still a violation of the geneva conventions that the IRC isn't allowed to visit.

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Tit.

For tat? Or are you calling rumsfeld a tit?

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Anyone remember Rumsfeld appearing on TV saying how important it was that the 5 US prisoners held by the Iraqis were treated according to the Geneva convention? Tit.

Looks like Saddam cared more about Geneva conventions than Bush does.

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i think they both just piss on the geneva convention.

lastly, i've always found that american adminstrations like using the guise of geneva conventions for their benefit but refute it when they don't need n e thing from it...but of course you all know that and that's why this thread is here !

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For tat? Or are you calling rumsfeld a tit?

Haha, well both ways now that you mention it.

Also thought it may be worth bringing this topic back up:

http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...threadid=100597

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U.S. Special Forces and CIA officers were actively involved in the battle to wrest the city of Kunduz from the Taliban, and they participated in the surrender negotiations. U.S. military and intelligence personnel interviewed the captured fighters at Sheberghan prison and other detention facilities, selecting some for further investigation at a U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. But they left virtually all other responsibility for the Taliban POWs in the Northern Alliance's hands. The result was an atrocity. Northern Alliance commanders allied with Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum packed the surrendered Taliban members into closed container trucks, where hundreds died of suffocation. Thousands of surviving POWs were crammed into prison cells designed to hold one-tenth the number. Water for 3,000 men came from a single rusty spigot, sanitation was grossly inadequate and food and medical care were minimal. Deaths from dysentery and exposure were common.

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The documentary describes how thousands of Taliban troops were rounded up after the battle of Kunduz in late November and transported in sealed shipping containers to Sheberghan prison, a jail then under US control in northwestern Afghanistan. The film alleges that large numbers of the prisoners died during the journey. US troops suggested the drivers take the bodies out into the desert at Dasht-i-Leili for burial. Two men said they were forced to drive hundreds of Taliban, many of whom were still alive, into the desert, and said that the living were shot. Footage showed large areas of compact red sand dotted with the traces of bones, including jaw bones, and pieces of clothing. The filmmakers claim that thousands of Afghans, Pakistanis, Uzbeks, Chechens and Tajiks may now be buried at the mass grave. UN and human rights officials have found the grave but have not estimated the number it contains. Only 15 bodies have been excavated.

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