[LINK] bin Laden is dead

[Roger Clarke]

At 8:13 -0300 2/5/11, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>Yet, one would think that the capture of him alive would have ended in
>a month-long trial and, ultimately, execution. Besides, I don´t think
>that if he was armed, that he would have allowed that to happen.

Yes, I have to go along with both aspects of that.

The Nuremburg process had its plusses and minusses, and even the 
current Int'l War Crimes Tribunal has its problems;  but I dread to 
think what would have happened if they'd put bin Laden before either 
a US military court or a US civil court.  Reasonably enough, 
anglo-derived courts weren't  designed for 'critters' like bin Laden, 
nor for acts of violence that weren't sanctioned by a nation-state.


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