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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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 ...

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