I am just wondering who will be called to testify and what classified evidence would be permitted in court. Maybe we can tell them how we are going after them like we did with OBL’s satellite phone.

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He’s already been indicted (in absentia) by a grand jury in US District Court, Stix. I would say, in theory, if he were captured elsewhere, we could request extradition… provided we have an extradition agreement with the capturing country.

So evidently he’s already set up to be tried in US District Courts. I don’t know if that’s the only indictment he has.

UPDATE: Again Aye Chi and I are furiously typing simultaneously… da in sync minds continue.

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Honestly Mata, I don’t think Dave would care.

In my estimation, he would herald it as another “the system worked” moment.

The only law applicable to the battlefield is the Law of Land Warfare and the Geneva Conventions.

Those laws make it rather clear what should happen to OBL if he is ever captured.

However, I happen to believe that his bones are a mouldering in a cave somewhere and we won’t ever have to cross that bridge.

Stix, if OBL is ever brought onto US soil for trial he will, ironically enough, go to New York City which is where he was indicted for the embassy bombings.

Somehow I don’t see him finding a judge who wouldn’t need to recuse him/herself from the case and can you imagine what jury selection would be like?

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I really do want to know what jurisdiction that Osam bin Laden falls under.???? He is not a US citizen and if caught would be a unlawful combatant which would fall under military jurisdiction. So where should we try him at???? Military tribunals were good for all other wars we have ever been, what changes this one???? Oh I forgot, Osoma is a criminal, not an enemy. He is just like the local drug dealer or gang member. What a fool I was.

Osama bin Laden should not be tried under US Law, he is not a US citizen, and will not be caught on US soil. Simply there is no way any terrorists should be tried in any US court.

The Supreme Court just gave everyone in the World a US Citizenship.

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That is a very “noble” statement, Dave Noble. One that, in theory I can agree on. However will you still feel that way if OBL, guilty beyond all doubt, goes free for legal technicalities?

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Yes, Aye Chi, Ossama Bin Laden deserves his day in court, not because of what he is, but because of what we are:

A civilized democratic country, founded on, and still adherent to, the rule of law.

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Totally off topic, but I’m following the rules for a meme that hit me and that I’m now bouncing to you.

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“…in previous terrorist attacks — for example, the first attack against the World Trade Center, we were able to arrest those responsible, put them on trial. They are currently in U.S. prisons, incapacitated.”

And we all know how effective THAT was in preventing any future attack.

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Barack Hussein Obama, Osama Bin Laden (I know it’s probably hard to tell the two apart) was behind the 93′ WTC attack as well. Where is he?

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Obama calls Iraq part of a “failed strategy?”

Failed how? No attacks on U.S. soil since 9/11 and no recent terror attacks on U.S. interests or persons anywhere in the world.

How is that a failure? What would Obama do better? He never says.

I like the part of Jake Tapper’s question that precedes Obama’s answer:

there has not been a terrorist attack within the U.S. since 9/11. And they say the reason that is, is because of the domestic programs, many of which you opposed, the NSA surveillance program, Guantanamo Bay, and other programs. How do you know that they’re wrong? It’s not possible that they’re right?

How many of these terror plots have been foiled directly due to the Bush “failed strategy”?

Had we not been taking aggressive measures to PREVENT another terrorist attack we might have lost those passenger jets over the Atlantic from Britain a couple of years ago with thousands dead and their bodies never recovered. I could go on and cite many, MANY other examples.

How is that the Obamatons can say such crap with a straight face?

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