We are papthetic little adjunct state, our loyalty never even remarked upon because it's never been questioned. keep to the Fen Causeway
Wouldn't it be interesting if BAe managers were extradited over that bribery scandal that was made to go away. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aCOmPSr4ctQk&refer=latin_america "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
from Human rights watches press briefing on the Geneva conventions
POW status provides protection only for the act of taking up arms against opposing military forces, and if that is all a POW has done, then repatriation at the end of the conflict would be required. But as Article 82 of Third Geneva explains, POW status does not protect detainees from criminal offenses that are applicable to the detaining powers' soldiers as well. That is, if appropriate evidence can be collected, the United States would be perfectly entitled to charge the Guantanamo detainees with war crimes, crimes against humanity, or other violations of U.S. criminal law, whether or not they have POW status. As Article 115 of the Third Geneva Convention explains, POWs detained in connection with criminal prosecutions are entitled to be repatriated only "if the Detaining Power [that is, the United States] consents."