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OzOne wrote in message ...
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:49:01 -0700, (Thom Stewart)
scribbled thusly:

What category of person?;----- There are many Irish Terrorist in British
Jails that fit that category to a TEE!!! I wonder where all the cries of
indignation, other than the Irish, are? Do you suppose that most people
think that blowing up women and children warrants keeping them locked
up?

Thom, they were in British gaols on British soil so they were subject
to British rules of detention......the reason the US has its captives
in Cuba is to deny them the natural justice to which they'd be
entitled if held in the US.

This is true. They are various kinds of illegal combatants captured outside
the USA and tried in/by the country where they were captured. Normally they
would have been exeuted there too. However, they were turned over to us
because each may have information useful to our war on terror. We hold them
outside the USA because they have no rights under US law and we want to keep
it that way.