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Clipmarks | Vietnam Clips Is Bagram Obama?s New Secret Prison? clipped by: papananook clippers remarks: What has happened to the Geneva Conventions? This omission of screening on capture - which has applied at Bagram ever since - came about because, under instructions from the highest levels of government, the military was obliged to shelve its plans to hold competent tribunals under Article 5 of the Geneva Conventions, despite the fact that they had been pioneered by the US, and had been used successfully in every war from Vietnam onwards. Held close to the time and place of capture, these tribunals (as opposed to the CSRTs, which mockingly echoed them), comprise three military officers, and were designed to separate combatants from civilians seized in the fog of war, in cases where it is not obvious that prisoners are combatants (when they are not wearing a uniform, for example), by allowing the men in question to call witnesses. During the first Gulf War, around 1,200 of these tribunals were held, and in nearly three-quarters of the case, the men were found to have been wrongly Clip Source: www.commondreams.org On Monday, one day after the New York Times and the Washington Post reported that the Obama administration was planning to introduce tribunals for the prisoners held in the US prison at Bagram airbase, Afghanistan, the reason for the specifically-timed leaks that led to the publication of the stories became clear. The government was hoping that offering tribunals to evaluate the prisoners status would perform a useful PR function, making the administration appear to be granting important rights to the 600 or so prisoners held in Bagram, and distracting attention from the real reason for its purported generosity: a 76-page brief to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (PDF), submitted yesterday, in which the government attempted to claim that "Habeas rights under the United States Constitution do not extend to enemy aliens detained in the active war zone at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan." . In April, Judge John D. Bates ruled zum Artikel... Weird Things People Keep In Jars clipped by: artdawgs Clip Source: www.gadling.com Weird Things People Keep In Jars In Laos, they put snakes in jars to make whiskey. In Vietnam, they call it wine... ...and they use cobras. Generally, animals seem to be popular things to keep in jars. This monkey can be found in Tulane Universitys Museum of Natural History. You can see this bottle of fish, there too. You can see this octopus in Viennas Natural History Museum. Ugh...bugs. In jars. Nicaraguans like to put snakes in jars, too. Some Japanese make their sake with poisonous Habu snakes. People also like to keep aliens in jars! These aliens are in jars in Canada. Oh wait -- I think these are just ginseng. kids in Scandinavia kid in Mexico Ick...in Cairo. Also in Cairo Cant blame the Egyptians, though, because this baby is in Belhaven Memorial Museum, in NC. This "cyclops swine" can be found in NC, too! zum Artikel... Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de