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Transcript: Interview: Professor Detlev Vagts discusses the legal status of the Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters detained by the United States at Guantanamo Bay
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- January 19, 2002
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Interview: Professor Detlev Vagts discusses the legal status of the
Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters detained by the United States at Guantanamo
Bay
Host: SCOTT SIMON
Time: 12:00 Noon-1:00 PM
SCOTT SIMON, host:
The United States is holding more than 100 Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters
in chain-link cells at Guantanamo Bay, including, perhaps, the former
Taliban army chief of staff. There is a mounting chorus of international
calls for the United States to declare these soldiers prisoners of
war. That's a legal status recognized by the 1949 Geneva Convention.
But so far, the US has maintained that these Taliban and al-Qaeda
fighters are, in fact, battlefield detainees ...