Re: Guantanamo

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 17:31:47 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (GREEBO)
wrote:

>If there is no US "jurisdiction" in Guantanamo how do they deal with 
>legal issues that must arise with the thousands of civilian employees
>and dependants - juvinile crime, traffic accidents, property disputes
>(my girlfriend split and took half my stuff)?

Of course the US has jurisdiction over the military and civilian
personnel at Guantanamo Bay.  Countries that allow us to build
military bases within their borders explicitly agree that we can apply
our laws within our bases.  (In the case of Guantanamo Bay, the
agreement was with the pre-Castro Cuban government.)

You are probably referring to the debate over the prisoners now being
held at Guantanamo.  What is disturbing about their presence is that
the US is essentially claiming that US law does NOT apply to those
prisoners, and that they are entitled neither to the rights of
prisoners of war under the Geneva Convention nor the rights of
criminals under US law.


**Dan Evans
**I post information, not advice.