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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
Joined: 25 May 2003
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The US court system isn't up to dealing with Al Qaeda. Neither is going back to the Sept 10 way of fighting terror.
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Former CIA Director James Woolsey, who was head of the spy agency at the time of the 1993 bombings, added that the law enforcement approach doesn�t work because it ignores the fact that Usama bin Laden, for instance, was indicted in 1998, before the bombing of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the USS Cole explosion in Yemen.
�The criminal justice � totally criminal justice approach to dealing with international terrorists, particularly when they are suicidal and are able to pull off plots like 9/11, has not worked. � It was a miserable failure,� Woolsey said. �We need an approach that combines law enforcement, where appropriate, with intelligence, with going after terrorists where they are, with an approach toward the war that we are, in fact, in, and not an approach that ignores that we are in a war against Islamist terrorism.�
Former Navy Secretary John Lehman, who also served on the Sept. 11 commission, added that the investigation into the 1993 bombings meant evidence was gathered under grand jury seal, and was not available to federal agents.
Former CIA Director George Tenet, who succeeded Woolsey �did not get to see the evidence, which would have linked some of the perpetrators of the �93 bombing to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed � in fact, they were relatives � and would have enabled many of the dots to have been connected well before 9/11 and, in my belief, would have given a good chance to have prevented 9/11. But since they were under grand jury seal and no one wanted the evidence and intelligence tainted in order to get a conviction, the CIA was not allowed to see that evidence and neither was President Clinton,� Lehman said, adding that it cost taxpayers $100 million to prosecute seven people.
�The terrorists should have due process but what Obama said that this is the right approach shows a very deep ignorance of the facts and a very dangerous policy,� Lehman said. |
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/06/17/mccain-advisers-accuse-obama-of-having-sept-10-mindset/
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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While people are talking about the rights that POWs have, it should be noted that there ARE qualifications for being a POW in the first place including wearing distinctive markings and bearing arms openly prior to being captured or surrendering
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner_of_war
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That's right. If you're just a poor shepard, whose neighbour had a grudge against you, and turned you in for a nice little bounty, you can't be held as a POW. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Big_Bird wrote: |
| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
While people are talking about the rights that POWs have, it should be noted that there ARE qualifications for being a POW in the first place including wearing distinctive markings and bearing arms openly prior to being captured or surrendering
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner_of_war
(under the heading Qualifications.) |
That's right. If you're just a poor shepard, whose neighbour had a grudge against you, and turned you in for a nice little bounty, you can't be held as a POW. |
Yes, Big Bird, that has happened more often than many would like to recognize. However, the shadowed manner in which the US acted following 9-11 obscures just how many innocents were collected, and just how many legitimate suspects were captured. We simply won't have any idea until a proper, open trial process is instituted. |
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