[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by primitive:
Bad point.

If they are not acceptable as POWs, then they should be treated as criminals and been given the basic rights criminals are given (right to a lawyer and so on)

There is absolutely no excuse to keep anybody outside of any law and deprive them of their basic human rights.

Ah.........Now we are on track. They do not fit the requirements of solders, not even if we use a very loose description. So they are civilians? No, they meet the criteria that forbid them from being treated as such. They fall into a Category that holds bandits, renegades and deserters. Along with saboteurs and spies. They were subject to summery execution except that there was no documented state of war, and no invocation of the conventions. So now they must fall under the authority of civilian law. But which Version? American law? I doubt that case would hold water. Afgan law? That would sure suck for them. The war on terrorism was not foreseen by the statesmen of years gone by. Back then if terrorists were caught, they were killed and everyone went home happy. But there were also not organized nations of terrorist that needed to be dealt with. Well there were a few small kingdoms that were spanked from time to time. But all and all, nations were not controlled by terrorists. So what do we do with the Gitmo-Afgans? Send them home to a long lingering death? That would suck for them. Send them to Iran to be rearmed and retrained? That would suck for most of the world. Bring them to the states and turn them loose? I'll get my equipment out of storage and kill the SOB’s my self if they do that. Perhaps we should send them to the EU. Would they take them? There is a good chance that they will still be at Gitmo when the lease runs out, and then the Cubanos can decide what to do with them. I would think that re-education would be the first step. Then they could be used to spread Marxism across the Islamic world.

Now most of my solutions have been in jest, but that is because there is no good solution. There are a lot of people crying out about the rights of these people, but very few good solutions being offered. Personally, I would like to see them prosecuted (persecuted) under their own Islamic laws.