Prosecuting al Qaeda: America's human rights policy interests are best served by trying terrorists under international tribunals.

From: Denver Journal of International Law and Policy | Date: September 22, 2002| Author: Janik, Anton L., Jr. | Copyright information

The basic proposition here is that somebody who comes into the United States of America illegally, who conducts a terrorist operation killing thousands of innocent Americans, men, women, and children, is not a lawful combatant. They don't deserve to be treated as a prisoner of war. They don't deserve the same guarantees and safeguards that would be used for an American citizen going through the normal judicial process ... [T]hey will have a fair trial, but it'll be under the proced...

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