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To: TexKat

It is a War Crime according to the Geneva Convention to fail to wear identifiable uniforms.

"He said about 30 gunmen, some wearing ski masks and baggy black pants and others in white and red checkered headdresses, mounted the ambush."


3 posted on 06/21/2006 10:08:32 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Zarqawi is Dead: Celebrate with a Pork Chop and a Beer!)
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To: Brad Cloven
It is a War Crime according to the Geneva Convention to fail to wear identifiable uniforms.

Citation please.

24 posted on 06/21/2006 10:27:45 AM PDT by ordinaryguy
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To: Brad Cloven
It is a War Crime according to the Geneva Convention to fail to wear identifiable uniforms.

That's a silly observation to make. If some foreign country invaded my neighborhood today, I don't even own an "identifiable uniform" to wear while I sniped at them from my bedroom window. Would the Geneva Convention find it more acceptable for me to wear my hockey team's colors than my pajamas?

I'd also point out that under these standards it would also be a "war crime" for the U.S. to have private security contractors operating in a place like Iraq. I'm sure those guys aren't dressed like the typical security guard at an office building in New York or Chicago.

25 posted on 06/21/2006 10:30:55 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
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To: Brad Cloven
It is a War Crime according to the Geneva Convention to fail to wear identifiable uniforms.

Don't you know the Geneva Convention only applies to members of the United States and allied forces?
66 posted on 06/21/2006 2:29:32 PM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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