[Hoot Gibson]

I don't exactly know the rule on that for sure, but I do know that the United States choose to apply the Geneva Convention to all enemies, terrorists or not. When I got to my first duty station I got a booklet on all rules and reg's on that post, and the general ROE. There was a big part of the Geneva convention in it, including some of the rules I stated in my previous posts. We have classes on it. ALOT of VERY boring classes...lol.

I know that we are granting rights that were negotiated under the conventions to enemy combatants, but we do so voluntarily. The Geneva conventions were reciprocal agreements among those countries who signed them. Al Qaeda and the other non-uniformed terrorists in Iraq only receive the "rights" that our federal government has elected to grant them.

Murderous terrorist thugs should be treated humanely until they can be tried by a military tribunal and executed. They should not be told that we are treating them in accordance with treaties to which they are not subject.

IMO, these terrorist organizations should be kept guessing about how their prisoners are treated.