Since we are at war with al-Qaeda...?

Um, spies are tried and convicted. See the Rosenburgs during the Cold War. And spies are aligned with a foreign country, not with a terrorist cell.

At what point do you draw the line?

Would you simply allow your government to engage in murder and torture? Do you not realize the image this gives America?

A prisoner of war is just that....a prisoner of war. They are entitled to some rights. First, not being tortured.

You can't simply call someone a spy just because they don't have a "uniform." If I remember right, Al-Qaeda doesn't have a home country...therefore would not have a military uniform.

I could call you a spy because you don't wear Nike shoes like everyone else. Would that be fair to you?

Bush has declared his invasion of Iraq the first front of, the war on terror,, Afghanistan being another,, he also said that Lebanon was included,, indicating the Hezbollah terrorists who attacked Israel, a US proxy, or an ally of America,,,, also, Bush said that Osama bin Laden himself,, declared Iraq as the center of WW111, meaning that Osama has helped him set policy,, so if the Bush US policies proclaim the enemy as combatants,, the terrorists would fall within the Geneva Conventions,, now wouldn't they,,,technically that is,, , hey I would agree to execute known terrorists,, but George W Bush has established the rules of his war,,, now the details of torture will be leagally decided by the US Supreme Court,,,, not favorable to Bush.......

we've 2 separate subject concerns. Al Queda is a non-state mafia. If captured on US soil or for the period of covert operations they're civilian criminals. If captured for the period of a protection rigidity operation they may be the two...that ought to be a judgment call staring on the guy captured. different, non Al Qaeda forces battling on their very own turf are POW's till grew to become over to what ever passes for a valid government in Afghanistan or Iraq. some human beings pick to simplify this, however the regulation is the regulation....who has the authority to circulate exterior the regulation? no person! battling an invading rigidity on your guy or woman turf or maybe volunteering to combat an invading rigidity in yet another u . s . a . isn't against the regulation...Many US electorate, alongside with my dad, volunteered to combat against Franco's Fascists on the Republican area in Spain previous to WW2. The republican forces have been the recognized valid government of Spain at that element. No member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade became ever charged with against the regulation via fact of participation. a private company Infiltrating yet another u . s . a . for the objective of attacking civilian targets IS against the regulation and could be taken care of as such. That rather plenty tracks international regulation. The Obama administration is as appropriate approximately this as this murky concern may be.

No, if we're at war, they would be a prisoner of war, subject to the Geneva Convention, which most of the world follows.

If the spy became a citizen then we would have to charge them with treason but I think you can just shout terrorist and their rights would be gone.

Well, you see, when confronted with a cancer, you take it out from it's source.

You eradicate it from it's roots, from it's origin.

Genocide? Maybe.

That may be the only effective way.

Then again, no official declaration of war by Congress, it's still in the "joke" phase.

why a spy, why not interrogate them as illegal aliens... I mean they're really not here to spy. In that case, we could just let them go free.

Leonard L said .... Well, you see, when confronted with a cancer, you take it out from it's source.

You eradicate it from it's roots, from it's origin.

So that would be US foreign policy, right?

Sounds good to me!