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Article: Iraq prisoners pose new test for Geneva Conventions; Both sides have taken prisoners, but the US faces burden of being viewed as global role model on POWs.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 26, 2003
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Byline: Warren Richey Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
WASHINGTON -- American soldiers now being held as prisoners of war in Iraq had nothing to do with the Bush administration's decision many months ago not to grant prisoner-of-war status to Taliban fighters detained by the US in its war on terrorism. But American POWs may face a tougher time in Iraqi captivity because of it.
Military and international law experts say that administration waffling over whether the Geneva Conventions should apply to terror suspects held by the US has somewhat eroded America's moral authority to demand full Iraqi compliance with international law now that US ...