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Originally posted by dhamsaic
As far as him being in the US instead of Cuba - this has been explained numerous times. He's an American citizen. As such, he's granted the rights that all American citizens have - a trial with a jury of peers. Do you think we're going to get those in a military tribunal? No. Hence his trial in the US.
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There is one school of thought (which I'm somewhat sympathetic with, and which nobody in the government seems to be interested in trotting out), that taking up of arms as part of a foreign army to do battle against the United States amounts to a renunciation of US citizenship, in which case he is NOT an American citizen and should be treated exactly the same as his al-Qaeda colleagues.
01-28-2002, 12:40 PM
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