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That is what the Supreme Court has apparently ruled today in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (pdf). The U.S. will be bound by the Geneva Convention in its war on al Qaeda -- even though al Qaeda is not party to the treaty.
Hopefully, President Bush has better lawyers than Harriet Miers who understand how to overcome this challenge.
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