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Jeneral2885

(1,354 posts) Wed Jun 11, 2014, 02:31 PM Jun 2014

Black Hawk Down, Bergdahl and the difference

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2014/06/11/why-the-black-hawk-down-prisoner-release-is-different-than-bowe-bergdahls/

Interesting article. But Somalia then was no Afghanistan. It wasn't a country with more than a decade of war with foreign troops in it.

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Jeneral2885

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Thu Jun 12, 2014, 05:20 PM

Jun 2014

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=122456

During a hearing called by the House Armed Services Committee to discuss the prisoner swap, Preston explained that it wasn’t necessary to classify detainees as prisoners of war to make them eligible for such an exchange.

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