[Broadside Joe]

"It is even more difficult to condemn West for violating the standards of the Geneva Convention for warfare and occupation when more senior U.S. officials are themselves treating those rules as inconvenient guidelines that can be ignored at will."

Wasn't this "Iraqi policeman" supposed to be on our side? If so doesn't this make him a spy? And what does the Geneva Convention say about handling spies?

[Ispy4u]

That has been covered here extensively, bottom line LTC West was not in a position to determine the legal status of the prisoner. LTC West's standing orders were to treat all prisoners the same, the JAG and NCA determines special categories such as spy.