German forces advised not to take Afghan prisoners

Kellanved

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Mon May-17-04 10:17 AM
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German forces advised not to take Afghan prisoners

HAMBURG - Military lawyers have advised German elite soldiers in Afghanistan not to take prisoners to avoid having to turn them over to US forces, Der Spiegel magazine reported.

In its latest issue, the Hamburg-based weekly cited military lawyers as saying that there were "too many open questions" about the Americans' treatment of prisoners, a view now seen as being confirmed in the wake of the revelations of prisoner abuse in Iraq.

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Dhalgren

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Mon May-17-04 10:54 AM
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1. We are in a war where our "allies"

don't trust us. Allies are always suspicious of their allies, it's the name of the game, but to have one army unwilling to trust its allied army, that spells disaster. We have sunk so low that the bottom is starting to look like "up" (to coin a phrase).

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