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Old 02-26-2006, 10:45 PM   #21 (permalink)
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that's because POW status is a lawful combatant. "the "Detaining Power" may choose to accord detained unlawful combatants the rights of prisoners of war as described in the Third Geneva Convention, but is not required to do so." wikipedia, i hate it but for now it'll do.
A source or a link for that would be really nice. I'd like to see it in context, and the Geneva convetion definition of lawful versus unlawful combatant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_combatant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Geneva_Convention

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