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The people held in Guantanamo Bay are not POW's.
If they were, they would be entitled to more rights than they have - like for example a trial or military tribunal? And the US is not, under the...

Interesting, as the UK government (who seem to be increasingly in favour of a police state), introduced similar powers in 2000 with their RIP act.
Important note here that this was before 9 11.
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