Replies to post #3662 on The Free Zone Board

[was Graywolf]

Indy/Sassy- Re: What do we now?

We did not take out bin Laden before because I like to think that we are not barbarians and believe in placing a man on trial prior to their death.

This is not a law enforcement issue, it is a war. It is the thought process that terrorism is crime that has brought us to this point in the first place.

[Indy708]

Sassy- Re: What do we do now?

Sassy the following is an excerpt from one of Bin Laden fatwa's in 1998.

>>"For more than seven years, the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula, plundering its riches, dictating to its rulers, humiliating its people, terrorizing its neighbors and turning its bases in the peninsula into a spearhead through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples.
The best proof of this is the Americans' continuing aggression against the Iraqi people, using the peninsula as a staging post, even though all its rulers are against their territories being used to that end, but they are helpless.

...These crimes and sins committed by the Americans are a clear declaration of war on God, his messenger and Muslims. And ulema [Muslim scholars] have throughout Islamic history unanimously agreed that the jihad [Holy War] is an individual duty if the enemy destroys the Muslim countries.

On that basis, and in compliance with God's order, we issue the following fatwa to all Muslims:

The ruling is to kill the Americans and their allies is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it, in order to liberate the Al Aqsa mosque [Jerusalem] and the Holy Mosque [Mecca]... This is in accordance with the words of Almighty God...

We call on every Muslim who believes in God and wished to be rewarded to comply with God's order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it."<<

As far as I'm concerned, the day he utterd these words, he gave up his right to a trial. We need to whack this guy. If we put him in jail there will be hostages taken to use as a bargaining tool for his release. Whack him, then move on to the next one. Make the life expectancy of the active members of these militant factions and thier supporters about 15 minutes.