Re: a dumb query? pls humor me
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:08:42 +0000 (UTC)
Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:13:41 -0400, Celejar wrote in
> [🔎] 20070321161341.3d5ba74a.celejar@gmail.com:
[snip]
> > [0] http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1169078731.shtml
>
> ..neocon propaganda show, ignores the fact that the Taliban was the
> Afghan government on 9/11 2001 when W declared war and invoked NATO
> treaty Article 5 and by implication the full 4 Geneva Conventions
> under their Articles 2 and 3 in all 4 Conventions since some of the
> other NATO Member States (Norway, the UK etc) had fully signed, ratified
> or acceeded into them.
What are you talking about? Prof. Ramsey writes:
> Let’s assume there is a category of people who take active part in combat but are not covered by the Third Geneva Convention (because they fail the test of its Article 4) or by Common Article 3 (because the conflict is “of an international character”). It seems fairly inescapable that there is such a category (whether or not Taliban or al-Qaeda fighters are in it).
He's specifically avoiding the question of whether the Taliban /
al-Qaeda are covered by Geneva. How is this "neocon propaganda"?
Celejar
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