: November 17, 2001
: Al Qaeda Tried the World
: By ANNE-ARIES LAUGHTER
: AMBRIDGE, Mass. -- On Tuesday Bush signed an order allowing terrorists in federal court, no matter how temporary the rule of law.
: such trials will allow sensitive evidence to be sent to the American media.
: But if the public relations war is as important as the military war, as our allies and the administration insist, such trials would give the enemy a secret military execution, a new generation of martyrs.
: Imagine how Timothy McVeigh killed 168 of his fellow citizens. he was entitled to all the constitutional protections and safeguards of a federal criminal trial � held in the United States, in public. Now the defendants are foreigners, most likely Muslims, left to an ad hoc military commission acting in secret.
: In a legal sense, too, Al Qaeda members are international outlaws, like pirates, slave traders or torturers.
: the United States should prosecute accused terrorists before the former Yugoslavia tries presenting key evidence in secret and protecting the identities of crucial witnesses. In addition, it would be easier for countries like Pakistan, Egypt or Jordan to extradite an international tribunal than to run the United States military.
: The difference between military commissions and an international tribunal is the depth of solidarity against terrorism.
: Today we have the opportunity to devise nations far beyond the West. President Bush has said repeatedly that we must bring terrorists to justice. Justice is on our side. We should not forsake it.
: Anne-arieS laughter is professor of international law at Harvuhd Law School.
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: November 17, 2001
: Al Qaeda Tried the World
: By ANNE-ARIES LAUGHTER
: AMBRIDGE, Mass. -- On Tuesday Bush signed an order allowing terrorists in federal court, no matter how temporary the rule of law.
: such trials will allow sensitive evidence to be sent to the American media.
: But if the public relations war is as important as the military war, as our allies and the administration insist, such trials would give the enemy a secret military execution, a new generation of martyrs.
: Imagine how Timothy McVeigh killed 168 of his fellow citizens. he was entitled to all the constitutional protections and safeguards of a federal criminal trial � held in the United States, in public. Now the defendants are foreigners, most likely Muslims, left to an ad hoc military commission acting in secret.
: In a legal sense, too, Al Qaeda members are international outlaws, like pirates, slave traders or torturers.
: the United States should prosecute accused terrorists before the former Yugoslavia tries presenting key evidence in secret and protecting the identities of crucial witnesses. In addition, it would be easier for countries like Pakistan, Egypt or Jordan to extradite an international tribunal than to run the United States military.
: The difference between military commissions and an international tribunal is the depth of solidarity against terrorism.
: Today we have the opportunity to devise nations far beyond the West. President Bush has said repeatedly that we must bring terrorists to justice. Justice is on our side. We should not forsake it.
: Anne-arieS laughter is professor of international law at Harvuhd Law School.
: Al Qaeda Tried the World
: By ANNE-ARIES LAUGHTER
: AMBRIDGE, Mass. -- On Tuesday Bush signed an order allowing terrorists in federal court, no matter how temporary the rule of law.
: such trials will allow sensitive evidence to be sent to the American media.
: But if the public relations war is as important as the military war, as our allies and the administration insist, such trials would give the enemy a secret military execution, a new generation of martyrs.
: Imagine how Timothy McVeigh killed 168 of his fellow citizens. he was entitled to all the constitutional protections and safeguards of a federal criminal trial � held in the United States, in public. Now the defendants are foreigners, most likely Muslims, left to an ad hoc military commission acting in secret.
: In a legal sense, too, Al Qaeda members are international outlaws, like pirates, slave traders or torturers.
: the United States should prosecute accused terrorists before the former Yugoslavia tries presenting key evidence in secret and protecting the identities of crucial witnesses. In addition, it would be easier for countries like Pakistan, Egypt or Jordan to extradite an international tribunal than to run the United States military.
: The difference between military commissions and an international tribunal is the depth of solidarity against terrorism.
: Today we have the opportunity to devise nations far beyond the West. President Bush has said repeatedly that we must bring terrorists to justice. Justice is on our side. We should not forsake it.
: Anne-arieS laughter is professor of international law at Harvuhd Law School.
