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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] How do we know we're going to be hauling them without evidence? I see a lot of assertions here of 'these people are going to be tried on no evidence,' but not even the original article seems to back that up. It says they're having trouble gathering enough evidence to charge them with 'traditional' war crimes, but that's not the same as not having enough evidence to charge them with ANY crime. If we DO consider "to have been a senior member or officer of a Qaeda unit that was involved in any of the regular crimes of war" as a crime (and given the precedent I discussed before, there's no reason we shouldn't), that's a different story. I don't think that there's any doubt that the folks being held at Guantanamo ARE officers (not necessarily high-ranking Osama confidantes, but officers nonetheless in the Taliban and/or Al Qaeda). IIRC, that was one of the qualifications to be shipped there rather than held in Afghanistan. I'm assuming that there's evidence enough to support that particular charge, which is why the government is going with that. Actually, I suspect that particular evidence wouldn't be all that hard to come by. You could glean some every time one guy referred to another by rank, or took orders from him. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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