[Skunk]

Originally posted by Cerek the Barbaric: Pardon me, but they were captured, not "kidnapped". Since I was chastised for improperly using the term "terrorist" earlier in this thread, then let us please continue to use the appropriate terms for both sides.

You should know me enough by now to know that I choose my words carefully.
The term 'Kidnap' merely means to:

"Unlawfully seize and detain usually with (but not neccessarily) with the purpose of obtaining a ransom"

The seizure of enemy combatents in war is of course a lawful act. To refuse them POW status and the rights afforded under the Geneva Convention is unlawful as the US is a signatory to the Convention.

Even if US claims that they are not POW's is held to be true, the continuing detention (and the nature of the detention) of those people at GM bay is still unlawful as it is in direct contravention of the Declaration of Human Rights - an agreement/treaty that the US signed more than 50 years ago.

Kidnap is therefore an appropriate term for those being held against their will, without charge or access to judicial review.