Our future; al Qaeda chief released from UK prison
This is what happens when you let the courts formulate national security policy (Associated Press link);
Abu Qatada, a radical Muslim cleric whom British officials say is an al-Qaida figurehead and a threat to national security, was freed from an English prison into virtual house arrest late Monday, British media reported.
Judicial officials acknowledged earlier in the day that the 51-year-old extremist preacher’s release from Long Lartin jail was imminent, but declined to comment on the reports from Sky News and the BBC, citing operational concerns.
Apparently, the courts decided that Qatada was being imprisoned illegally. The Brits are trying to deport the supposed leader of al Qaeda in Europe to Jordan where he’s been found guilty of terrorism charges in absentia for his participation in two bomb plots there. The European Court of Human Rights is worried that evidence developed through torture will be used against him, so they’re blocking his deportation.
So that’s what is in our future. The Iraq War has all but ended, the Afghan War is drawing down, so what do we do with the prisoners we’re holding at Guantanamo? With the wars over, we have no real legal standing to continue holding them, right? So do we let the best legal minds apply our laws against them? With the war out of the equation, they’ll be out on the streets in no time.
Category: Terror War
Nail, hammer, Jonn.
We put them on a plane to fly them back to the Middle East. Half way across the Atlantic, the crew disables the flight controls and bails out over a predetermined location where they are recovered by the US Navy. Meanwhile, the plane, now disabled and not carrying enough fuel to make it anywhere near land, make a nice, gentle touchdown mid-ocean; similar to the gentle touchdown Flight 93 made in Pennsylvania.
Top Goz,
Why waste a perfectly good expensive airplane just to get rid of one muzzie a-hole? Just have the dude do a “DB Cooper” (with either a disabled parachute or no parachute – your choice) out the back of the plane, over the ocean. When the crew lands, they can plausible deniability – he tried to escape and just jumped.
@#3: I was thinking we’d put ALL of the “detainees” on the SAME plane; perhaps a retired C-141 that otherwise is just going to be cut up for scrap out at Davis-Mothan.
To hell with deniability; “If you screw with us, there’s plenty more where that came from.”
I’ll raise the stakes to a decommissioned ship, used for gunnery practice by the Navy, sunk for an artifical reef.
If it’s done right, the Navy doesn’t even have to know there’s anyone on board.
Tried, found guilty, executed, and buried, all in one easy step. And good for the environment, too!
Sorry to come in on such an old post – I’m catching up (been spending way too much time offline to keep up). Great plans, guys, but too complicated and/or expensive. The right way to deal with this walking piece of excrement (and every other like him) is one in the back of the head before feeding his body to pigs.
Our culture is committing suicide before our eyes.
Is the European Court for Human Rights related to the 9th circus court of appeals?! Sounds like something those clowns I Kalifornia would pull!?