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Old January 1st, 2008, 04:45 AM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly
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On 31 Dec 2007 20:44:53 GMT, Scott Seidman
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wrote in news:g8kin3hqq7cdb1rbdh6kqr6g26gsd7q5sa@
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, absent a bilateral agreement to not use such techniques,


Isn't that what the Geneva Convention is??


Another overly broad question, but IAC, when did al-Q'ueda and the like
become signatories to the Geneva Convention? And also IAC, that brings
a whole 'nuther aspect into the discussion - the legal aspects of
(conventional) warfare. If that's the matter under discussion, it's
simple: US personnel are under no legal prohibition from waterboarding
al-Q'ueda operatives who aren't activated, regular members, and captured
in the uniform, of certain countries or forces. And if they are such,
depending on what they were doing when captured, they are subject to
summary execution.

Yeah, summary execution. We can cut their heads off, tape it, and post
it on YouTube.

Yeah, us.

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