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Americans Disagree with Congress on Interrogation |
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Tuesday, 14 November 2006 |
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(angus reid) - Many adults in the United States disagree with the Military Commissions Act of 2006, according to a poll by Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University. 52 per cent of respondents think the U.S. Congress was wrong in giving the president the authority to interpret the Geneva Convention when ordering the interrogation of suspected terrorists.
The 1949 Geneva Convention defines prisoners of war as members of rival armed forces captured during a conflict. Since the start of the war on terrorism on October 2001, there have been contradictory arguments after captured members of al-Qaeda and the Taliban were defined as "unlawful combatants" who were not subject to the Geneva Convention. Read More
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