WTF?-Death penalty for 6 Guantánamo inmates sought - BECAUSE- of Geneva Convention

[kpete]

Death penalty for 6 Guantánamo inmates sought - because of Geneva Convention

The US has repeatedly argued the inmates in Guantanamo are not covered by the protections of the Geneva Convention as they are no military fighters in the classic sense. The US denotes them as “enemy combatants.”

But now there is this:

Military prosecutors have decided to seek the death penalty for six Guantánamo detainees who are to be charged with central roles in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, government officials who have been briefed on the charges said Sunday.

The officials said the charges would be announced at the Pentagon as soon as Monday and were likely to include numerous war-crime charges against the six men, including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the former Qaeda operations chief who has described himself as the mastermind of the attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people. (…) NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/us/11gitmo.html?_r=3&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Interesting. So what exactly is a war crime then? Let’s turn to the US Code on that one:

§ 2441. War crimes

(c) Definition.— As used in this section the term “war crime” means any conduct—
(1) defined as a grave breach in any of the international conventions signed at Geneva 12 August 1949, or any protocol to such convention to which the United States is a party of,

US Code, TITLE 18, PART I, CHAPTER 118, §2441, War crimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/us/11gitmo.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

To sum it up: They are there because the Geneva Convention does not apply to them. Now they must die, because they broke the Geneva Convention.

http://www.sebimeyer.com/2008/02/11/death-penalty-for-6-guantanamo-inmates-sought-because-of-geneva-convention/

[SpiralHawk]

1. "I predict major blowback." - Ronald Reagan's Dead Republicon Astrologer*

"Commander AWOL proves himself to be a 4th-rate republicon Skull & Boner darkside occultist. I mean, shit, he didn't even take note of Mercury Retrograde when calling for these trials. He's going to get his Evil-Doing Torture shoved back in his lying AWOL WMD face this time."

- Ronald Reagan's Dead Astrologer (R)*


Do not try this at home, kids. Courageously & expertly channeled by Ye Olde Spirale Hawke, who made prophylactic prepararations for communing the with the occult republicon netherworld by ingesting a half-dozen cream-filled doughnuts to ensure the purity of his precious bodily fluids.

[Nitrogenica]

2. They think fighting terrorism is a law enforcement issue?

How Liberal.

[malaise]

3. Get over it

They need a multiple hanging to win some votes. They'll probably show us live on TeeVee. REthugs do not value any lives other than their own.
Bush, Cheney and their goons are the scum of the earth.

[Arctic Dave]

4. Now that's some mental pretzaling

Question: If KSM says he the mastermind of 9/11, why was/is OBL being blamed for it? This is not the first time I have seen this written.
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