Does Geneva Convention apply?
Urging the appeals court to overturn Robertson’s ruling, Assistant Attorney General Peter Keisler told the appeals court that al-Qaida is not a signatory to the Geneva Convention.By attacking unarmed civilians, not wearing uniforms and not carrying their weapons in plain sight “they openly defy the principles of Geneva,” he said.Keisler urged the appeals court to consider “the surpassing importance of protecting procedures and methods” of gathering military intelligence about al-Qaida. “We’ve never had a conflict in which intelligence was so important,” he declared.
