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9/11 Suspects Will Be Tried in New York

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BLBfootballs11/13/2009 9:50:03 am PST

re: #125 kreyagg

So only US citizens have civil rights. Is that what you’re saying? Anyone else is fair game for however we want to treat them?

Nonsense — the Geneva Conventions explicitly place terrorists and irregular (e.g. non-uniformed) combatants outside the protections of international law. There is no American precedent for granting normative civil rights coverage to foreign soldiers — much less terrorists, spies and other foreign irregulars.