It is worth noting that a signicant number of detainees have been released from Gitmo after being screened by US authorities. It is also worth mentioning that some of those released have rejoined AQ to fight again.
Gitmo is a physical institution. If the prisoners are not held there, they would have to be held elsewhere. Closing Gitmo is meaningless and would only be symbolic.
Yeah some of the gitmo detainees have been recaptured after they have been released fighting US and UK forces in Iraq. Give me a break these people would kill any one of us Infidels given the opportunity.
Actually the Geneva Convention IV of 1949 doesn´t differentiate between non-state combatants and state-combatants. So-called partisans in WW2 would have been combatants under the GC IV, because they worn special insignia and their arms openly.
"Although one of the Powers in conflict may not be a party to the present Convention, the Powers who are parties thereto shall remain bound by it in their mutual relations. They shall furthermore be bound by the Convention in relation to the said Power, if the latter accepts and applies the provisions thereof."
The terrorists aren´t combatants because they cannot be identified by insignia and they don´t wear their arms openly (in most cases).
What you said.
And the symbolism of Cuba is important.
Cuba is Fidel Castros island prison.
No one leaves without his go ahead except by risking their lives for 90 miles across the Florida Strait.
I wonder how many have NOT made it.
Tens of thousands is my guess.
Do any Germans care?