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To: Kaslin
The Geneva Conventions prohibit the use of mercenaries under Article 47 of Protocol I, and the United Nations prohibits it under resolution 44/34 ("Unlawful combatants").

The question is whether it applies against non-governmental groups like Islamic State--but the US is likely to assume that it does, as it did during the Bush era (there's a reason that groups like Blackwater weren't engaged in major offensives).

8 posted on 09/25/2014 12:08:57 PM PDT by The Grammarian
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To: The Grammarian

NO WE must save the clitorisus!......Hiring it out would be ULTIMATE bad face.....WE must save them......drones are ok....if they are ours...wanna restore faith in U.S. both here and everwhere else?...Then WE must save them.

Serious....this is important....Islam globally is tipping this issue right now.....Its a point of enlightenment.

Besides its our mess.


10 posted on 09/25/2014 12:15:39 PM PDT by therapsida (tThats a group now?)
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To: The Grammarian

Don’t forget the ban on Writs of Marque, although that ban could be repealed by Congress.


23 posted on 09/25/2014 1:11:27 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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