Letter from Alexander Karagiannis, Director of UK, Benelux and Ireland Affairs, to Helen Clark, Member of Parliament, UK House of Commons

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Letter from Alexander Karagiannis Director, United Kingdom, Benelux, and Ireland Affairs assuring UK MP Clark that detainees held under US control in Guantanamo are still treated humanely depsite their lack of POW status.

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Letter
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https://www.thetorturedatabase.org/node/5972
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Wednesday, December 29, 2004
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UNCLASSIFIED

RELEASED IN FULL
Helen Clark, MP
House of Commons
London SWIA OM
Dear Ms. Clark:
Thank you for your letter of 7 August 200.3 to President. Bush expressing concern related to the detainees held under U.S. control at a U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
As you note in your letter, the United Stat.es and its Coalition partners are at war with terror, in particula.r the al Qaida network and remnants of the Taliban who continue to support them. The al Qaida network today is a multinational enterprise with operations in more than 60 countries. Active hostilitie~ are ongoing daily in Afghanistan a~d around the world. We continue to fight agains.t enemy combatants who are planning and conducting attacks against us.
Let me assure you, however, that President Bush has affirmed on any number of occasions that al Qaida and Taliban detainees, regardless of their lack of status as POWs under the Third Geneva Convention of 1949, will be treated consistent with American values and the principles of the international law of armed conflict. He has determined that United States Armed Forces will treat enemy combatants humanely, and, to the extent consiste'nt with military necessity, in a manner consistent with the principles of the Third· Geneva Convention of 1949.
Sincerely,
Alexander Karagiannis
Director
United Kingdom, Benelux, ·and
Ireland Affairs
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE
REVIEW AUTHORITY: SHARON E AHMAD 005-000434

UNCLASSIFIED
DATE/eASE ID: 10 NOV 2004 200303827
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5972
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