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Originally Posted by Eric
Guantanamo is reserved for non-American enemy combatants captued in the War on Terror. It is not "outside of US jurisdiction". All they face at Guantanamo is a fair trial. They get a far better deal than would any US, UK, or Canadian soldier captured by the Taliban.
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Again I agree that suspected proponents of terrorism sent to Guantanamo get infinitely better treatment than would captured alliance military or civilian personnel, however here's a quote from that never be doubted
font of knowledge, Wikipedia.
After the US Department of Justice advised that the Guantanamo Bay detention camp could be considered outside U.S. legal jurisdiction, the first twenty captives arrived at Guantanamo on January 11, 2002. After the Bush administration asserted that detainees were not entitled to any of the protections of the Geneva Conventions, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld on June 29, 2006, that they were entitled to the minimal protections listed under Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions.[4] Following this, on July 7, 2006, the Department of Defense issued an internal memo stating that prisoners would in the future be entitled to protection under Common Article 3.[5][6][7] Susan J. Crawford, who was appointed by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to review practices used at Guantanamo Bay, told Bob Woodward of the Washington Post in an interview in January 2009 that Mohammed al-Qahtani was tortured while being held prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, making her the first Bush administration official to concede that torture occurred there.