Guantanomo, Hamdan, Geneva Conventions

Excerpt from Salon.com article:

“During the sentencing phase of Hamdan’s trial, the government had tried to invoke the Geneva Conventions — which it had long argued were inapplicable to Guantánamo detainees — to justify Hamdan’s confinement in Camp 5, one of the prison’s highest security camps where detainees are held in conditions akin to super-max conditions in the U.S. With no shortage of irony, Judge Allred interrupted, asking, “Geneva Conventions?! What Geneva Conventions?’ “

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/08/12/hamdan_guantanamo/index.html

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