- Dear Jeff:
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- The following commentary appeared in Balochistan Post
from the 24th of March. It highlights the hypocrisies of the current US
government in its self-centered desire to have the Geneva Convention applied
to its POWs, however, they did not care about the Geneva Convention when
it came to the Afghan POWs.
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- Incidentally, Collin Powell referred to the Afghans captured
in war as POWs and stated that they will be classified as POWs but Rumsfeld
refused and classified them an illegal combatants. Yet, Rumsfeld has no
shame to come to the international stage of diplomacy and demand the application
of Geneva Convention to the US POWs. What about the Afghans imprisoned
in 2 X 2 meters cages for almost two years? What happened to the Geneva
Convention then?
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- Tragically, the Bush administration would say that the
Taliban's government was not recognized by the US, and that its soldiers
were not wearing proper military uniform, hence, Talib soldiers could not
be classified as POWs. If that is the case, then why was the Bush administration
negotiating with Taliban in summer of 2001? Moreover, the criminal Northern
Alliance allies of the US were not wearing uniforms, either. In fact,
the Northern Alliance has been complicit in the massacres of thousands
of people. In fact, the US was the one that provided military uniforms
to the Northern Alliance.
- The US might be powerful militarily, but it lost the
battle of morality and of face to the rest of the world.
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- Mohammed Daud Miraki, PhD
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- Iraq Should Treat US Soldiers Like The US Is Treating
Afghans
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- Commentary
- The Balochistan Post
- Monday, March 24, 2003
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- LONDON -- Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain believes that captured
US and British troops should be treated as unlawful combatants by the Iraqi
army, similar to the manner in which the USA treats those who it illegally
holds at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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- After the capture of American troops the US Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld, citing the Geneva Convention, hypocritically stated, "It's
illegal to do things to POWs that are humiliating to those prisoners."
This seems rather ironic from an Administration that has humiliated, shackled,
gagged and blindfolded some 600 prisoners at Camp Delta while they are
detained without trial, charge or legal representation.
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- Since America and Britain have unilaterally flouted international
law and the UN, which Muslims have always viewed as tools of the colonialists,
international law and the UN are now redundant, says the news release of
Hizb.
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- In seminars around the UK this weekend, thousands of
Muslims have once again reiterated their whole-hearted support for the
Jihad of the Iraqi army that is being waged to hold off the invaders. They
have also called on the armies of the Muslim world to immediately go to
the assistance of the Iraqi army and people so that the invasion can be
repelled.
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- Dr Imran Waheed, a UK based doctor and a representative
of Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain, said, International law and the UN have now
been discarded in the dustbin of history. The Muslim World must now resolve
the issue of Palestine, Kashmir and all other foreign policy issues on
a unilateral basis and not on the basis of international law.
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- http://www.balochistanpost.com/item.asp?ID=3551
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