[MNJohnnie]

in breach of the Geneva conventions

Note to extremly hysteric Leftist world wide. Taliban are ILLEGAL combatants. Under the Geneva conventions they have NO protection. If you are going to make arugments at least have the intellectual decency to FIND OUT THE FACTS before publishing your extremely stupid articles.

[houeto]

Note to extremly hysteric Leftist world wide. Taliban are ILLEGAL combatants. Under the Geneva conventions they have NO protection. If you are going to make arugments at least have the intellectual decency to FIND OUT THE FACTS before publishing your extremely stupid articles.

Beared repeating. Thanks.

[John Robertson]

"Note to extremly hysteric Leftist world wide. Taliban are ILLEGAL combatants. Under the Geneva conventions they have NO protection."

But when I explained this to an extremely hysterical Leftist acquaintance, she explained that she understood that, but that the West had a "moral obligation" to observe the GC, because we're supposed to be the civilized ones. Yeah, that's how they see things.

[PureTrouble]

Actually, the Tali-ban did sign the Geneva conventions when they were in charge of Afghanistan.

So, the question is does the Geneva conventions protect soldiers of a war that resulted in the replacement of a government and now the new national government exists? Is the Tali-ban still protected under the Geneva convention?

Al-Queda fighters are Illegal combatants, I am not sure of the status for the Tali-ban.