HUMAN 1A Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Intellectual, Edward Said, United States Attorney General
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Geneva conventions article 3: no violence to life and person, taking hostages, etc: war on terror doesn"t apply to geneva convention counter arguments: encourages other countries to ignore geneva. The loophole al qaeda terrorist organization and therefore not part of. Regular forces : taliban didn"t exercise full control so not a legitimate nation state that should come under protection of geneva convention. Khalid el-masri sued cia for detaining and torturing him: mistaken for al-masri alleged to have made contact in germany with. Bush administration connects terrorism to: enemy combatants (not prisoners of war, no legal protections, operatives working for al qaeda and taliban, islamic (more generally middle eastern) Clash of civilizations: relies on various oppositions. Christian vs. islam state of the union speech 2003: bush making case for war against iraq, saddam hussein has weapons of mass destruction and will give them to al qaeda.
