Monday, November 29, 2010
Friday, November 19, 2010
Inconsistent
From: larry.r.trout
'He also highlighted that the administration's approach to anti-terror legalities is riddled with absurd inconsistencies.
On the one hand, Judge Lewis Kaplan, who presided at Ghailani's trial, barred prosecutors from presenting a key witness - the man who sold Ghailani explosives - on the ground that the government discovered who the witness was when the CIA subjected Ghailani to rough questioning.
On the other hand, Kaplan expressed the view that the U.S. could legally hold Ghailani without a criminal conviction as an enemy combatant.
On the one hand, full constitutional rights for Ghailani. On the other hand, lock him away, in Kaplan's words, "until hostilities between the United States and Al Qaeda and the Taliban end."
Even more schizoid, President Obama has properly marked for death radical Islamist preacher Anwar al-Awlaki and has ordered unmanned drones to rain down hellfire on Taliban and Al Qaeda militants in Pakistan.
They get no warning, much less an opportunity to have a lawyer challenge the evidence against them. But the administration stands ready to provide the full suite of constitutional and procedural protections to KSM, the man who orchestrated the act of war that killed 3,000 people.
It adds up to an illogical and destructive mess.
Trying terrorists in civilian courts has won the U.S. nothing. It hasn't affirmed American values, it has confused them. It hasn't put America in the world's good graces, and, even if it had, the potential prices are way too high.
This is war, and war is not waged in court. Those who attack are not criminals. They are caught not by cops who gather evidence in nice little baggies, but by military personnel or CIA operatives concerned with stopping the next attack.
They are sometimes held in CIA black sites, or at Guantanamo, where they are squeezed for intelligence. They are square pegs. It is a terrible, historic mistake to try to force them into the round holes of the civilian justice system.'
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/11/19/2010-11-19_stop_the_terror_trials.html#ixzz15kbC0Stp'
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Peace
'Speaking to The Jerusalem Post, Palestinian Labor Minister Ahmed Majdalani said the PA hopes that by the end of the year all the thousands of Palestinians who are employed in Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria will quit their jobs. What he didn't mention is that if they don't quit, they will be arrested.
According to PA Economics Minister Hassan Abu Libdeh, since the start of Fayyad's campaign, the PA has confiscated $1 million worth of Israeli products including foods, cosmetics and hardware from Palestinian stores.
Fayyad's measures come on top of previously enacted PA measures like imposing the death penalty on Palestinians who sell land to Jews. Less than two months ago, the PA reaffirmed that it will continue to execute any Palestinian who commits this "crime."'http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=195474
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Friday, November 5, 2010
mosque attack
From: larry.r.trout
'suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vest inside a mosque in northwestern Pakistan during midday prayers on Friday, according to government officials, a strike apparently aimed at worshipers who had denied support to the Taliban.
Officials estimated the death toll at around 50. "At least 70 people are injured," said Shahid Ullah, a district official. "Many are in a critical condition."
Pakistani news media reported that the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. '
Apparently religiously motivated Muslims have no qualms with killing people in a mosque.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/06/world/asia/06pstan.html
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)