To: mystery-ak
This is the passage...
"(2) Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movements, fulfil the following conditions: (a) that of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates; (b) that of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance; (c) that of carrying arms openly; (d) that of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war. "They are not wearing a reconized militay uniform. Wearing a Pair of Black PJ's with mama's head scarf........doesn't count.
323 posted on
11/30/2003 2:57:42 PM PST by
Dog
To: Dog
..ok...but the US knows that they consider their black pj's as uniforms....one poster says that we have captured these guys before and consider them irregulars, I hope he's right.......OOOOOh..Rita is on now with her scoop!
328 posted on
11/30/2003 3:02:50 PM PST by
mystery-ak
(GodSpeed, Mike.)
To: Dog
Rita just said they were dressed in military uniforms..???
332 posted on
11/30/2003 3:04:14 PM PST by
mystery-ak
(GodSpeed, Mike.)
To: Dog
Thank you. Even Fox news was spouting garbage about the Fedayeen being emeny combatants. They have never read the Geneva Convention and couldn't care less about accuracy in reporting.
340 posted on
11/30/2003 3:08:30 PM PST by
BillM
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