if he is brought back to the United States and prosecuted,
He's already been convicted in Italy, and they've asked to extradite him.
Since the Italians have such a good claim to him, I suggest that we bring him back to the US, give him a fair trial, sentence him to death, execute that sentence, and then extradite him to Italy.
It went something like this: Given that Abu Abbas has committed no terrorist acts for many years and has renounced terrorism, why are we arresting him now?
UNbelievable.
Q[uestion:] General, Paul Adams, BBC... on Abu Abbas, I'm just wondering why you found it necessary to devote time and energy to arresting a man who, for the last dozen years or so, has not been involved, to the best of anyone's knowledge, in any acts of terrorism, who's actually renounced terrorism and condemned 9/11; is, in effect, a has-been.
And here is General Brooks's answer
Gen. Brooks:...Abu Abbas is a terrorist. He was a terrorist. He remains a terrorist. And he will be viewed as such. Notwithstanding any declarations that have been made in recent years, his role in terrorism, his links to terrorist organizations, are abundantly clear.
This is an L.A. Times article? It looks more like an article I would expect in the Washington Times.
Do the positive outcomes of this war never cease? Oppressed people freed, terror dealt a possible death blow, US gets a free base in Iraq to replace the very costly one in Saudi, Democratic Party, having positioned itself to lose if war went well, loses, France loses, everyone who opposed US loses, Kim-Jong Il is hiding somewhere in Pyongyang, no, he's cowering, OPEC's building in Vienna is for sale, price of crude plummeting, Dow futures soaring.....and now.....Arafat could go down?
I can't take it, I just can't take any more of this.