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...groups operating inside Turkey. Similarly, attacks in Riyadh and Indonesia have been carried out by members of local Islamist organizations with links to al-Qaeda. The very term "al-Qaeda" now doesn't necessarily have the same implication as it did on 9/11, when attacks carried out on U.S. soil by foreign terrorists were micromanaged by a senior operational echelon in Afghanistan and other remote locations. While that capacity certainly still exists, the bulk of the attacks being carried out now in al-Qaeda's name are the work of localized network following general "fire-at-will" orders and picking...
Moreover, because the prisoners are being held on a piece of land that the U.S. leases, not owns, the government claims that it does not have to provide the same legal resources as it would on American soil. The precedent for this justification is a 1950 case in which the U.S. detained German prisoners in China; the Court then ruled that there was no legal obligation to afford them access to the federal courts...
...flight--the three U.S. soldiers were receiving some of the world's best medical care at the 28th Combat Support Hospital, south of Baghdad. Wyatt and Meinen were back in the U.S. about three days later. It was a week before the more seriously wounded Castro landed on U.S. soil...
Likewise, throughout the 1990s American soldiers and civilians were murdered overseas without any real consequences for the killers. Then 3,000 people were massacred on our own soil. As William McGurn has written in National Review, “If we have learned anything since September 11, it is that all Americans become vulnerable when we send the signal that others can molest our citizens abroad without repercussions...
...most audacious terrorist strike on Indian soil occurred on Dec. 13, 2001, when five men with automatic weapons and explosives entered the grounds of the Indian Parliament building intending to blow up the country's political leadership. All five died in a shootout, and when police searched the terrorists' bodies, they found a phone number, which led them to two fellow plotters, Shaukat Hussain Guru and Mohammed Afzal. Checking their captives' cell phones, the police dug up one more number, which belonged to Syed Abdul Rahman Geelani, a professor of Arabic. Two days after the attack Geelani was arrested outside...