Are Terrorists Criminals or Enemies in War

The Provocateur ^ | 06/09/2009 | Mike Volpe

[fiscon1]

Today, the first GITMO detainee faced U.S. civilian court.

Under heavy guard, a Guantanamo Bay detainee walked into a civilian U.S. courtroom for the first time Tuesday, underscoring the Obama administration's determination to close the Cuban prison and hold trials here despite Republican alarms about bringing terror suspects to America.

Ahmed Ghailani, a Tanzanian accused in two American Embassy bombings a decade ago, pleaded not guilty -- in English -- in a brief but historic

[DieHard the Hunter]

I don’t see it as an either/or. They are both criminals AND enemies in war AND illegal combatants. As such they should have no more rights and privileges afforded to them than bugs and insects enjoy.

[ETL]

In Obama's world, they're 'family friends'!

From the Chicago Sun Times, November 13, 2008:

Ayers: Obama was 'family friend'
New afterword to 2001 book, Ayers describes Barack Obama as 'family friend'

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1278532,bill-ayers-barack-obama-book-111308.article#
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"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at"
--Bill Ayers (1970), quoted in New York Times, September 11, 2001:

Article: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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'Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country,' he [Ayers] said."
August 2001, Chicago Magazine (article: No Regrets)
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/August-2001/No-Regrets/
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"So, would Mr. Ayers do it all again, he is asked? 'I don’t want to discount the possibility',he said."
New York Times, September 11, 2001:
"No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1

[FlingWingFlyer]

Like Bush and Cheney, the Islamofascists see this as a war. The ****ing Obamacorns see it as a 7-11 holdup.

[cranked]

The answer depends upon how one fights or cplans to combat terrorism or acts of terrorism.

Bush’s realist/conservative anti-counterterrorism strategy was to mainly fight terrorism via the use of military application and force-—hence, terrorists were not criminals nor POWs, but enemy combatants.

On the other hand, the Liberal Barry Adminstration’s anti-counterterrorism strategy is to mainly fight terrorism with law enforcement means-—hence, terrorist are criminals.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Neither one: Being dressed as civilians in a war makes you a spy, and spies may be shot out of hand under the rules of war.

[DieHard the Hunter]

> Neither one: Being dressed as civilians in a war makes you a spy, and spies may be shot out of hand under the rules of war.

Hear, hear!