Navy diver's killer held in Beirut

The Washington Times ^ | 12-21-05 | Nicholas Kralev and Gary Emerling

[Bigh4u2]

""Just to see him free slays us,"

Unfortunate choice of words, I would think.

[wideawake]

We better get him extradited and sentenced to death in the US.

Unless, of course, the Lebanese are willing to expedite the process on their own soil.

[TCats]

I would have thought that, rather than rearrest him they would employ the Israeli technique - a la mode MUNICH - to deal with this murderer.

[Billthedrill]

I don't know if they'll extradite under those circumstances. And although it might be worth it to guarantee no death penalty just to get him back behind bars forever I don't know if that guarantee would be legal. FReeper legal beagles, what's your opinion?

[Wristpin]

Wouldn't be something if the Lebanese actually turned him over to the US? I can imagine the lefties would have a new VICTIM of Bush imperialism.

[GarySpFc]

The Germans showed us they have a bad concept of justice. We need to hold them accountable for this miscarriage of justice, and bring this Muslim back to faced the gallows.

[Cicero]

I'm not authorized to arrange an accident, but if I were, I think that would be the best solution.

[Prime Choice]

I say we spirit him out of Beirut, fly him to Baghdad, and put him on the tarmac. Once there, walk 20 feet away, turn around, apprehend the sumbitch and send him to Gitmo.

[GarySpFc]

The Germans showed us they have a bad concept of justice. We need to hold them accountable for this miscarriage of justice, and bring this Muslim back to faced the gallows.

[AntiGuv]

[Parley Baer]

Actually I think freeing him from a liberals version of a life sentence was a good thing. I think a Hellfire missle from a predator drone would be as good as anything for a death sentence. Hehehehehe.

[Bigh4u2]

Well, I'm not a 'legal beagle' but I think the Justice Department can make any deals it want's too.

Even to the point of saying "It isn't worth our time to retry him".

But I doubt that they would do that.

[Cicero]

Regretably, the Germans have done this before. They think it will help protect their own country from terrorist attacks.

[rvoitier]

"..., but officials said they were determined to "get our hands on him." "We are going to make every effort to see that he stands trial here in the United States," said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack."

Has the eery ring of clinton's, 'We'll get those Kobar Towers bombers,' to those victims' families. And, of course, we know how well *that* went.

[Element187]

I smell another free tookie protest coming up!

[clee1]

Any contract made under duress and that violates US law is unenforceable.

[A.A. Cunningham]

No extradition treaty with Lebanon. Greasing their palms with a massive amount of "foreign aid" will probably get Hammadi back. Hopefully the spooks can get to him and save us a lot of trouble.

Photo Credit: AP

[wideawake]

How can a man that damned good-looking get mixed up with terrorism?

I hope he doesn't slip and fall down several flights of stairs while being transferred.

[LukeL]

It sounds like this whole Iraq thing is turning out to be good for the Middle East. First we had Libya ending its weapons program, now it looks like Lebanon might be willing to cooperate with the US.

I would not care if he doesn't get the death penalty as long as it means he remains behind bars for life.