US AND BRITISH POWs SHOULD BE TREATED AS ‘UNLAWFUL COMBATANTS’ BY IRAQI ARMY
London, UK, March 23 – Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain believes that captured US and allied troops should be treated as ‘unlawful combatants’ by the Iraqi army, similar to the manner in which the **USA treats those who it illegally holds at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. **
After the capture of American troops the US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, citing the Geneva Convention, hypocritically stated, “It’s illegal to do things to POWs that are humiliating to those prisoners.” This seems rather ironic from an Administration that has humiliated, shackled, gagged and blindfolded some 600 prisoners at Camp Delta while they are detained without trial, charge or legal representation. Since America and Britain have unilaterally flouted international law and the UN, which Muslims have always viewed as tools of the colonialists, international law and the UN are now redundant.
In seminars around the UK this weekend, thousands of Muslims have once again reiterated their whole-hearted support for the Jihad of the Iraqi army that is being waged to hold off the invaders. They have also called on the armies of the Muslim world to immediately go to the assistance of the Iraqi army and people so that the invasion can be repelled.
Dr Imran Waheed, a UK based doctor and a representative of Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain, said, “International law and the UN have now been discarded in the dustbin of history. The Muslim World must now resolve the issue of Palestine, Kashmir and all other foreign policy issues on a unilateral basis and not on the basis of international law.”