CNN inadvertently documents Geneva Conventions violations -- unfortunately they are not by Americans

Everyone is commenting about the "exclusive" CNN video that shows al Qaeda snipers picking off US soldiers in Iraq.

If CNN had a shred of decency, they would bundle the video along with a description of what its viewers were actually seeing: non-uniformed, illegal combatants murdering uniformed American troops off the battlefield in cold blood.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this sort of behavior banned by the Geneva Conventions?  Where is Ramsey Clark?  Such a description of the video should be easy to write, seeing as journalists are all experts on the Geneva Conventions these days.

I wonder, if the terrorists who made this video are ever caught, will we try them in a military tribunal and execute them as spies?  That would be legal under the Geneva Conventions. 

I won't go so far as to say that CNN is being held hostage by al Qaeda (although their former director admitted a few years ago that they were held hostage by Saddam Hussein) but it is interesting that this video makes the network home page, while other things, such as the "Mohammed Cartoons" are deemed to volatile for broadcast.

Bob Owens at Confederate Yankee has a rather long list of things about this video that should have caused serious embarassment for CNN.  Read it.