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The Al-Qaeda Captives

February 6, 2002 | ISSUE 38•04

U.S. leaders are divided over whether al-Qaeda detainees in Cuba should be classified as POWs and protected under Geneva Convention laws. What do you think?

  • Goddammit, just when we finally get some prisoners, everybody wants us to be all nice to them.

    Roger Koss
    File Clerk

  • I have to admit, it's funny the way those Marines had them bowing twice a day in the direction of Oscar Mayer world headquarters.

    Donald Matthews
    Architect

  • This is a totally different situation. Those Geneva Convention laws were written back when we were fighting white people.

    Bruce Nowell
    Systems Analyst

  • Geneva Convention, Schmeneva Convention. Refute that, if you possess the erudition.

    Marcus Moore
    Landscaper

  • We need to rough up these al-Qaeda guys a little if we're ever going to get them to confess who the one true God is.

    Diana George
    Homemaker

  • I don't think we should risk making martyrs of these men. Notice I said 'martyrs,' not 'quadriplegics.'

    Danielle Lund
    Florist

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