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Even so, European alarm persists: Britain's foreign secretary Jack Straw said Thursday that his government would press for the British subjects held at Guantanamo to be returned to the U.K. to stand trial there, rather than before a U.S. military tribunal. An American diplomat had further inflamed European tempers...
Treating these detainees in the same manner as prisoners of war would not exempt them from being prosecuted for crimes committed outside the laws of war. Any Taliban fighters—who are even more clearly members of an organized fighting force—connected to atrocities perpetrated against the...
Call 'em squeamish if you like, but America's European partners in the war on terrorism are increasingly alarmed over those Al Qaeda prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. All across the continent newspapers challenged the U.S. view that the captives fall outside of the Geneva Convention. Britain's Guardian contests the...
If Omar is captured, what do we do with him? The U.S. has made it clear to the interim Afghan government that if Omar is apprehended, he must be turned over to American authorities. But how he would be brought to justice is a question the White House has still...
Charles Krauthammer fears that a trial of al-Qaeda terrorists in a U.S. or world court would be a "legal circus" [ESSAY, Nov. 26]. Despite that risk, an open trial carries greater moral weight than a military tribunal, which is still associated with injustice and dictatorship in too much of...