Editor's Note: Warsaw-based journalist David Dastych, a former CIA operative once imprisoned by the KGB, warns that "while some innocent people captured and eventually tortured by the CIA or the US Army could demand compensation for being illegally detained, when we start to treat genuine terrorists as "combatants" and grant them POW rights--they will be sure they can attack us everywhere and at anytime--because that's how stupid we (Americans, and Westerners) really are!"
