That being said, somebody please explain to me how the U.S. has jurisdiction over them. They are not U.S, citizens, and their crimes were perpetrated in another sovereign country.
Always willing to be enlightened by my fellow freepers.
Perhaps he's committed crimes other than Bali.Or perhaps there was at least one US citizen killed in Bali.Or maybe we're just acting on behalf of a good ally,Australia,about 200 of whose citizens were killed in Bali.
The crimes were against American as well a others. I would also just mention that this is a world war against terror and the spiritual leader of the Southeast Asian Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist group, Cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, who was tried in Indonesia, is walking free and instigating the murder of non-Muslims, particularly Americans, Christians, and Buddhists.
One could make the same argument against the Nuremberg Trials and I did believe some did. I am always reluctant to use legal arguments in regard to terrorist because it puts us in the same camp as the democrats in combating terrorism. Democrats (at least those democrats who want to actually put up any fight at all! ) view the struggle against terrorists & terrorism as a "legal or criminal problem". That's a totally reactive approach, a bank robber is not a criminal until he robs a bank, so for democrats a terrorist is a misguided individual until he commits an act of terror. Now that means you do nothing or nothing effective until you have been attacked. This has actually been the USG policy for probably 20+ years it resulted in 9/11. The USG has had the "alphabet agencies" operate counter-terrorism organizations for those 20+ years. All they ever did was watch & catalog terrorist groups like they were some exotic but dangerous group animals. I for one think the passive approach has failed ! It is a too dangerous option in the modern world considering the array of mass casualty choices a group could get their hands on. The Bush administration is the first to actually be aggressive. (I don't call the occasional bombing run or chucking a couple of cruise missiles around aggressive action !). Unfortunately like I have stated on this forum before, the Bush administration still choose active aggressive action with small capital letters & number 6 font! It took an attack on US soil to even get the USG to do that much! It might take another mass casualty attack to put enough fire in our belly to actually press the issue with hard cold will it needs. Also an attack under the right circumstances, spun right by the MSM also might make us Spain.
Karri Casner, 23
Megan Heffernan, 28
Robert McCormick, 30
George Milligan, 23
Deborah Lea Snodgrass, 33
Steven Webster, 41
Jake Young, 34
All killed 10/12/2002, Bali, Indonesia.
All US citizens.