Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs.
While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.
We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a theater of war.
Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.
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Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs.
