Guantanamo Detainees Op-Ed by Pierre-Richard Prosper Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, March 2003. In this Op-ed Amb. Prosper describes how it is that America came to the issue of taking Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters and the difficulty in handling such non-state actors. He states that "these combatants clearly fail to meet the legal criteria under Article 4 of the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War to be granted the benefits associated with Prisoner of War status." He concludes by stating "Our goal is to work with the Government[s] to uncover further information that can assist in determining how the case of its detainee will ultimately be handled.”