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Oman says it has accepted 10 inmates from the US prison at Guantanamo Bay ahead of President Barack Obama leaving office.
[...] Oman said it accepted the prisoners at Obama's request. It did not name the prisoners.
"To meet a request by the US government to assist in settling the issue of the detainees at Guantanamo, out of consideration of their humanitarian situation, 10 people released from that prison arrived in the Sultanate of Oman for a temporary residency," a foreign ministry statement said.
19 of the remaining 55 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay were cleared for release just days ago.
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Oman Receives Ten Detainees Released From Guantanamo
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(Score: 2) by vux984 on Wednesday January 18 2017, @06:20AM
No, it's a category that was intentionally excluded from protections in the GC.
I have issue with anyone who says combatants not part of a uniformed military are entitled to GC protections. They're not. You are simply wrong.
It is important, however, to note that this finding is predicated on the view that there is no gap between the Third and the Fourth Geneva Conventions. If an individual is not entitled to the protections of the Third Convention as a prisoner of war (or of the First or Second Conventions) he or she necessarily falls within the ambit of Convention IV, provided that its article 4 requirements are satisfied. The Commentary to the Fourth Geneva Convention asserts that;
every person in enemy hands must have some status under international law: he is either a prisoner of war and, as such, covered by the Third Convention, a civilian covered by the Fourth Convention, or again, a member of the medical personnel of the armed forces who is covered by the First Convention. There is no intermediate status; nobody in enemy hands can be outside the law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlawful_combatant#cite_note-4 [wikipedia.org]
*Nobody* was "intentionally excluded" from the GC.
And separately...
I don't have issue with you saying there were probably people hauled off that shouldn't have been.
Probably all of them. Even the ones that deserve to be strung up for the rest of their lives. Nothing they did warrants the lunacy the United States engaged in to 'get them'.