World News Tonight (ABC) - 2002-01-26
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[0:02] Oh my.
[0:10] On World News Tonight this Saturday,
[0:12] detainees or prisoners of war. New
[0:15] debate within the Bush administration
[0:16] over the status of Taliban and al-Qaeda
[0:19] prisoners. A doctor who treated dozens
[0:22] of people exposed to deadly anthrax
[0:24] spores on Capitol Hill speaks out. An
[0:28] Ivy League defection. Rival Princeton
[0:30] poaches a Harvard star. And a farewell
[0:34] to a weary symbol in Afghanistan.
[0:39] >> From ABC News World Headquarters in New
[0:42] York. This is World News Tonight,
[0:45] Saturday.
[0:47] >> Good evening. I'm Elizabeth Vargas. In
[0:49] Washington, there is growing debate over
[0:51] whether the members of al-Qaeda and the
[0:53] Taliban held at Guantanamo Bay should be
[0:55] classified as detainees or prisoners of
[0:58] war. The administration calls them
[1:00] battlefield detainees, but tonight,
[1:03] Secretary of State Coen Powell is urging
[1:05] caution and recommending that some might
[1:08] be considered prisoners of war. ABC's
[1:11] Jim Shudo has more from the Pentagon.
[1:14] Secretary Powell's recommendation
[1:16] conflicts with President Bush's decision
[1:18] to classify all of the detainees as
[1:20] unlawful combatants, not prisoners of
[1:22] war, which would afford them the rights
[1:24] of the Geneva Convention. A senior US
[1:27] official tells ABC News that Secretary
[1:29] Powell is recommending a more careful
[1:31] and deliberate process in classifying
[1:33] the detainees. The official said while
[1:36] Secretary Powell clearly recognizes the
[1:38] majority if not all of the detainees are
[1:41] unlawful combatants, he would like to
[1:43] see a careful review of their status.
[1:45] Despite international criticism, the
[1:47] Bush administration insi