Re: a dumb query? pls humor me
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:10:22 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote in
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> On 03/21/07 20:21, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: [snip]
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>> The Taliban occupied 95% of the territory, called the Islamic
>> Emirate of Afghanistan. The remaining 5% belonged to the rebel
>> forces constituting the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, which the
>> United Nations had recognized as the official government in exile.
>>
>> So, the Taliban was only the legitimate government in the sense that
>> they declared themselves to be so. Nobody, outside of Pakistan and at
>> at some point SA and UAE, recognized them as the legitimate government.
>> So tell me again, how are insurgents lawful combatants?
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> 95% seems pretty much de-facto control of the country to me!
..Norway had 0% of Continental Norway from June 7'th 1940 thru
1944, when the Soviet Union pushed the Nazis back across the Norwegian
border, even then the Germans made a major effort to round up Norwegians
for evacuation away from the war zone up North in Norway, before torching
it off and retreating.
> But... they weren't in uniform. (Did the IEA even *have* an Army?)
..define "uniform" under the Conventions. ;o)
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..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.
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