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Trying Terrorists in U.S. is Dangerous

Andy440 Wrote: Nov 18, 2009 12:35 PM

Who 'arrested' these men whom the Obama administration has now decided to 'try' as common criminals in U.S. courts? The police did not 'arrest' these men. Just like the police didn't apprehend the men who are now imprisoned at Guantanamo. These men are ALL PRISONERS OF WAR who were apprehended by U.S.Military forces, and overseas U.S.security forces; and they were apprehended as the result of an ACT OF WAR against the United States, NOT for violation of U.S.criminal statutes pertaining to murder and destruction of property. And because these men are PRISONERS OF WAR, and not common criminals, the proper venue for trying them is a MILITARY COURT, not a civilian criminal court... Anyone who cannot wrap their heads around that simple and...

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Trying Terrorists in U.S. is Dangerous

The Obama administration has chosen the wrong New York venue to try five co-conspirators in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. Instead of a Manhattan courtroom less than a mile from the site of where the World Trade Center stood, the government should have chosen the Bronx Zoo, because a zoo is what will be created when this terrorist trial is held.

In announcing the decision to try in a civilian court these "enemy combatants," as the Bush administration rightly described them, Attorney General Eric Holder...

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