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Should we post-humously try Osama bin Laden in an international court?

Should we?

  • yes

    Votes: 1 7.7%

  • no

    Votes: 12 92.3%
  • Total voters
    13
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Tyrannosaur

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What do you think?
 
How does an international court have jurisdiction?
 
No, everyone knows what he did with his pathetic life, and there is no need to waste the time/money, to have what would be nothing more than a symbolic case.
 
Chappy said:
How does an international court have jurisdiction?
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He was a citizen of Bosnia and Afghanistan (?), both have ratified the Rome Statute.
 
Tyrannosaur said:
It makes the US look better though.
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No it doesn't. How could it possibly? He would either be found innocent and we killed an "innocent" man or he would be found guilty and we'd look like the country that kills first, tries later. It is a lose/lose. He did, he admitted to it, no one doubts his guilt. Move on.
 
I'd rather we didn't waste the money.
 
Tyrannosaur said:
What do you think?
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A trial for a dead man that everybody knows is guilty? No. Besides that I consider myself to be patriotic/nationalist American so I wouldn't give a rats ass what an international court says.
 
No, he's dead, and nothing we do is going to change that. It would just be a waste of money.
 
Chappy said:
No. I mean what Article 5 crime or crimes would you have him tried for?
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Well, if we can accept juristiction via ratification...

At a minimum, crimes against humanity (5b), like the Ocampo Six.


ps. Thanks for the copy of Rome, I didn't have one.
 
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