On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:10:22 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/21/07 20:21, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: [snip] >> >> The Taliban occupied 95% of the territory, called the Islamic >> Emirate of Afghanistan. The remaining 5% belonged to the rebel >> forces constituting the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, which the >> United Nations had recognized as the official government in exile. >> >> So, the Taliban was only the legitimate government in the sense that >> they declared themselves to be so. Nobody, outside of Pakistan and at >> at some point SA and UAE, recognized them as the legitimate government. >> So tell me again, how are insurgents lawful combatants? > > 95% seems pretty much de-facto control of the country to me! ..Norway had 0% of Continental Norway from June 7'th 1940 thru 1944, when the Soviet Union pushed the Nazis back across the Norwegian border, even then the Germans made a major effort to round up Norwegians for evacuation away from the war zone up North in Norway, before torching it off and retreating. > But... they weren't in uniform. (Did the IEA even *have* an Army?) ..define "uniform" under the Conventions. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
