White House Statement on Treatment of Detainees
Guantanamo Conditions and Privileges
The United States is treating and will continue to treat all of the individuals detained at Guantánamo humanely and, to the extent appropriate and consistent with military necessity, in a manner consistent with the principles of the Third Geneva Convention of 1949.The president has determined that the Geneva Convention applies to the Taliban detainees, but not to the al Qaeda detainees. Al Qaeda is not a state party to the Geneva Convention; it is a foreign terrorist group. As such, its members are not entitled to POW status.Although we never recognized the Taliban as the legitimate Afghan government, Afghanistan is…
