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Breaking Pentagon admission: They want terrorists to win
WASHINGTON, July 11 -- In a sweeping change of policy, the Pentagon
has decided that it will treat all detainees in compliance with the minimum standards spelled out in the Geneva conventions, a senior defense official said today. The new policy comes on the heels of a Supreme Court ruling last month invalidating a system of military tribunals the Pentagon had created to try suspected terrorists, and just before Congress takes up the question of a replacement system in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today. As part of its decision, the court found that a key provision of the Geneva conventions, known as Common Article 3, did apply to terror suspects, contradicting the position taken by the Bush administration. Key quote: "If you don’t apply it when it’s inconvenient, it’s not a rule of law." http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/11/wo...rtner=homepage |
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