Abstract This paper is going to take a critical look at high security detention camps of Abu gharib in Iraq, Guantanamo in Cuba that are used by the united states of America to detain terrorists suspects. The terrorists captured all over the world after September 11 were taken to Guantanamo bay Cuba where they have been suspected to torture which contradicts the Geneva convection. The paper goes on to examine the Abu Ghraib detention camp in and Iraq, and further explore the implication of rendition policy of the United States. In addition this paper will also examine the Geneva convection and hoe the policies of America relate to it. More so, a critical look of long term effects of the united states contravening the Geneva convection will be analyzed and a conclusion made that America need to respect rule of law and that the Geneva convection is important aspect in protection of POWs Introduction The Bush administration in 2002 made a determination that members of Taliban and al Qaeda who were captured should be treated as enemy combatants. The pentagon and the white house together with the justice department agreed that the captured prisoners had no rights in federal law or under the Geneva convections. The findings were endorsed by President Bush. The United States new that, it was going to fight along and fierce “war on terror” than before. Gaining quick access to intelligence was viewed as vital and important, to achieve this, the administration knew that they had to gain information through interrogation means that could only be done when neither covered by united states or the civil rights movements or the Geneva convection (Greenberg and Dratel, 2005). Abu Ghraib prisons in Iraq Abu Ghraib is an Iraq city that came to be known for the torture and also prisoner abuse scandal where Iraq detainees were tortured by United States military this was revealed through a number of photographs that appeared in world news media the pictured showed prisoners being sexually abused or humiliate or tortured by the United States soldiers. These lead to world wide out cry and change of policy by the military. Though, the scandal was being treated as committed by a few “rogue” soldiers, it was later discovered that it as widespread and many other cases were reported (Greenberg and Dratel, 2005). This put the United States under sport light on how it is treating the detainees in the Abu Ghraib camp. Guantanamo Bay prisoners In the year 2002 the United States started to imprison Al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners that it captured in Afghanistan or anywhere else in its “global war on terror” at the American Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (GITMO) as with the case of the prisoners in the Abu Ghraib in the year 2003, reports, shortly started to surface alleging that prisoners at the GITMO were being treated badly, and in some cases they were being tortured. The reports made the United States administration credibility and image to be questioned by various agencies as they criticized the way prisoners were being handled at the GITMO. The council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly in 2005 said that the United States administration had betrayed its set principles, and Guantanamo Ba