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To: Monorprise
The man is technically a U.S. Citizen and he is in America. There are no grounds for ignoring due process rights.

Sure there are. We are at war with Al Qaeda. If he can be linked to AQ, even through his brother, then he is a non-uniformed military combatant. He would have been waging war on US soil. Neither the Geneva Convention, nor due process would apply. He would be subject to the same rules as a Confederate sabotuer captured during the Civil War.

211 posted on 04/20/2013 3:22:13 PM PDT by Poison Pill (Take your silver lining and SHOVE IT!)
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To: Poison Pill

There is no war against AQ.

Just because you assert there is one doesn’t mean there is.

Congress hasn’t declare a war for 60 years...

They passed an authorization for use of force against Terrorists responsible for 9/11 in 2001 and another one for the Iraq invasion.

That’s it.

AQ isn’t mentioned anywhere... There is no war against them.

And I believe the AUMF is a usurpation of power and is being used illegally by the Obama administration to go into countries like Yemen and drone strike villages. There are children being killed with drone strikes who weren’t even born on 9/11


217 posted on 04/20/2013 3:25:10 PM PDT by JohnPDuncan
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To: Poison Pill

“”The man is technically a U.S. Citizen and he is in America. There are no grounds for ignoring due process rights.”

Sure there are. We are at war with Al Qaeda. If he can be linked to AQ, even through his brother, then he is a non-uniformed military combatant. He would have been waging war on US soil. Neither the Geneva Convention, nor due process would apply. He would be subject to the same rules as a Confederate sabotuer captured during the Civil War.”

Fair enough, Assuming even those “Civil War” rules are even constitutional.


227 posted on 04/20/2013 3:33:25 PM PDT by Monorprise
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To: Poison Pill
We are at war with Al Qaeda.

When did Congress declare that, again?
271 posted on 04/20/2013 4:39:50 PM PDT by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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