Statement by Todd Huizinga First Secretary at the U.S. Mission to the EU to European Parliament re: Public Hearing on Guantanamo Bay Detainees. Summarizes U.S. policy on Guantanamo detainees - specifically, that the capture and detention of enemy combatants is consistent with the law of armed conflict, that the Taliban and al-Qaida are not entitled to POW status under the 1949 Geneva convention, the provision of military commissions to try detainees and the legal protections of that forum, and the expected release of detainees once they are determined to pose no longer a threat.