A Weakening Will To Crush Terror

IBD Editorials ^ | August 13, 2009 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff

[Kaslin]

The Law: Terrorists have had lots to celebrate recently as court rulings from Bangkok to Madrid wiped out years of work to stop them and raised doubts about treating the war on terror as a law-enforcement action.

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Last Friday, a U.S. federal judge ordered the release of Sheik Mohammed al-Moayad, a Yemeni cleric convicted in 2005 of financing Hamas and trying to bankroll al-Qaida by as much as $20 million. Al-Moayad had been sentenced to 75 years, but based on claims of improperly admitted evidence, a judge ordered him freed. Now set for deportation, he will likely kill again.

Then on Tuesday, a Thai judge ordered Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout, a monster known as "The Lord of War" and "The Merchant of Death" for selling billions in illegal weapons to terrorists on four continents, set free instead of extraditing him to the U.S.

In a 2008 sting operation, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents posed as Colombian FARC terrorists looking for weapons and managed to lure the elusive trafficker from Moscow to Bangkok, where he could be picked up by Thai authorities.

In ruling that charges against Bout be dropped, the Thai judge said Thailand hadn't recognized FARC as a terrorist group and that only Americans were threatened. Thai prosecutors are appealing, but if they lose, Bout walks.

[Kaslin]

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[Kaslin]

[Eagles6]

“zero” showed his colors when he bowed to the saudi king and spit on the Brits.

[Kaslin]

I was never fooled by zero

[Eagles6]

Me neither.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The pickles related in the article are not zero’s fault. (Or Bush’s)