
Originally Posted by
Amir
What they are doing is murdering innocent individuals. Americans may have mistreated individuals at Gitmo prison and Gbay. But those individuals are not soldiers in allegiance to Iraq. Therefore they are enemy combatants. (Civilians.) Under which they are not protected by the Geneva Convention. (This means if we allowed it, we could torture them.) But that is not the way we operate. The soldiers whom did inflict punishment undue are being taken care of by the military.
You're not, and even if you are mistreating them I'm going to wager the vast majority are there for a reason. Example: Moazamm Begg admitted on national TV when he arrived in Britain after being released from Gitmo that he had both visited and funded an Al'Quada training camp. Also: Remember the stories of the Koran being flushed down the toilet? Well, turns out those were complete lies. Didn't hear that reported widely, did you?
Finally, although I sadly can't track it down specifically, there is a text in some terrorist handbook or other which explicitly states that captured jihadists are to do everything possible to make the world believe they are being abused in custody.