Are TASK FORCE SABER / 7 Men Prisoners Of War?
– Prisoner Of War status has become a hot issue in the War On Terror. (See: AP articles on Saudi AQ Terrorist Yaser Esam Hamdi captured in Afghanistan in 2001. Newsweek, June 28, 2004; an illegal combatant who was reclassified as a POW subject to Geneva Convention Protections; and, Jose Padilla vs. US). The DOD has started calling POWs by the relatively new name- EPWs- Enemy Prisoners of War and by another brand new name- Illegal Combatants, aka, Enemy Combatants. The legal grounds to deny POW and Geneva Convention status to al-Qaida, Iraqi, and Taliban terrorists is simple– they don’t meet the requirements of Rule 4 of the Geneva Convention for Combatant Prisoners. Few terrorists do. To see these rules, follow this footnote: READ RULE 4. TASK FORCE SABER 7 followed these requirements to the very letter of the law (See POW Status Request below). Terrorists don’t wear uniforms, have ID Cards, carry their weapons openly, wear unit patches (what would it say? AQ Killer Group with two bur
