[Jonny foreigner]

The trial should have been held in the USA, and the POS should have been imprisoned here.

Jurisdiction was in Scotland for the trial because the flight crashed there.

We should have objected and had the trial in the USA.

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this would have been impossible because this “crime” (terror act) happend as you have said not on american soil. there for the US had no jurisdiction in this case.

[wiggen]

and he would have been in GITMO and possibly released months ago.

[Candor7]

Well the USA could have insisted on jurisdiction based on the fact that it was an American Airline. And it might have worked, but as you say, jurisdiction is usually decided on the situs of the case.

We should be making that argument if it ever, God forbid, happens again.And this result of early release is a good reason why a court might actually accept the argument.

Maybe a sniper from a mile away is now the answer.