France will immediately start agitation for his transfer to a French prison (i.e., his release). This will be an irritant to US-EU relations which, since it has the potential to go on for 50 years, may morph into a problem.
As long as France fails to gain his custody, the French state will weaken before its rapidly growing Islamic minority.
The UN will become involved. You can bet the General Assembly will "require" his transfer to France within the next year.
He will become Mr. International Mumia, but with no deadline for his transport to the next world the agitation will never end.
Every Democrat who runs for President for the next 50 years will be his Liberator-in-Waiting, in the spirit of international cooperation and respect for the world community, of course.
Now, that's the Europeans and the Canadians.
The Muzzies will immediately start direct action to gain his release. The impetuous ones will of course take hostages, and kill them. The clever ones will commit acts of terror in Europe and Canada, to turn up the heat.
This will go on, and on, and on until he is transferred to France (released) or killed.
In retrospect, the failure of the administration to execute him in 2001 was an incredible act of cowardice.
People sometimes die in prison. There is still hope.
When they re-activate 'Devils Island', then they can bring up the subject again..!
... that is release him from a moving aircraft at 15,000 feet without a parachute, somewhere with a chance that he might be impaled on the Eiffel Tower.
But that's just me.
Wrong, Jim. This Canadian government will NEVER lobby for his release or transfer.
I imagine the US has used back channels to explain to the French that any such attempt will be met with severe response.
Ah, I see. So it's all Bush's fault. [yawn]
"Every Democrat who runs for President for the next 50 years will be his Liberator-in-Waiting, in the spirit of international cooperation and respect for the world community, of course."
Hyperbole is fun, but of course there's no way a U.S. president would ever let this guy out or hand him over to France.
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In retrospect you are remarkably prescient.
france has already started the process based on treaty.
The state department will control this transfer issue and I submit the state department does NOT have the interests of the USA at their core.
You forgot Hollywood. They'll turn him into their latest cause celebre, declaring him a "political prisoner" who is being "tortured." Forget Mumia. This guy has real marquee value.
The French wouldn't release him right away if they got him. They'd hold him for a few months, then free him to go about his business of killing.
Moussaoui will not be extradited, will gradually be forgotten and will likely figure out a way to kill himself.
Turn the Statue of Liberty into a missile, shackle Moussaoui to it and send it back to them...
Why would the French even want this guy back?
Send him to France via vertical insertion without the benefit of a parachute! Allahu fubar!