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Message: [QUOTE="Stu_Ungar, post: 1103506, member: 39779"] ^^^ I agree with what you say here, they are neither civilians or in military combatants, in the traditional sense. I can understand that they would be in a limbo state for a period of time whilst authorities decided how to proceed. However there has to be some time frame beond which it is unacceptable to keep them without trial. This period should be counted in months; not years. The issue is not whether or not they should be sentenced to incarceration, rather that it is wrong to detain anyone without setting a timescale for trial. Put them on trial and sentence them accordingly. They are more of a threat to your way of life whilst held in Gitmo than you may believe. The American ideal is based on democracy but their treatment is more in keeping with a dictatorship, where people can be held without trial for unspecified periods of time. [/QUOTE]