I know it's lazy to link to another blog but why do the work if someone else already has.
Also, Obama's plan to deal with terrorists.
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Fix the link. The page is http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/05/020600.php.
In addition to Iraq, terrorist attacks since 2003 within the U.S. or on Americans abroad include the following, most of which can be found here (Hinderaker included a thwarted attack in his list, so I include them here):
2004 United States Shahawar Matin Siraj and James Elshafay are arrested for planning to bomb the 34th Street–Herald Square subway station in New York City during the 2004 Republican National Convention.
2004 Saudi Arabia American Lockheed Martin employee Paul Johnson, Jr., kidnapped and executed.
2004 Saudi Arabia Suspected al Qaeda-linked group attacks U.S. consulate in Jeddah, killing five local employees.
2005 Jordan Bombing of 3 American hotels in Amman.
2006 Pakistan Bomb in Karachi kills a U.S. diplomat.
2006 U.K./U.S. British Police disrupt an alleged bomb plot targeting multiple airplanes bound for the United States flying through Heathrow Airport.
2006 Syria Four attackers armed with grenades and machine guns attempt to storm the U.S. embassy in Damascus.
2007 Kenya A bomb explodes in Nairobi outside the Ambassador Hotel, just a few blocks from the U.S. Embassy.
2007 Germany Arrests on suspicion of attacks on the Frankfurt International Airport, the U.S. military base in Ramstein, and pubs and schools frequented by Americans.
2007 Austria Two Bosnians are arrested in an apparent plot to bomb the United States embassy in Vienna.
2007 United States A pair of improvised explosive devices are thrown at the Mexican Consulate in New York City.
2007 Greece U.S. embassy fired on by an anti-tank missile.
The McCarthy article is shamefully idiotic. I am surprised a lawyer could write such crap. History will not look kindly on those members of my profession that aided the abuses of the Bush Adminstration and turned their backs on the rule of law.
First, OSAMA BIN LADEN IS STILL FREE (I hate people who type in all caps, but I felt it justified). Isn't that all the evidence we need that the Bush Administration isn't getting the job done? I included this Obama quote in another post on this blog: "I refuse to be lectured on national security by people who are responsible for the most disastrous set of foreign policy decisions in the recent history of the United States. Osama bin Laden and his top leadership — the people who murdered 3,000 Americans — have a safe-haven in northwest Pakistan, where they operate with such freedom of action that they can still put out hate-filled audiotapes to the outside world. That's the result of the Bush-McCain approach to the war on terrorism."
Second, Obama wants to go after him in Pakistan, with or without Musharraf's permission, and McCain strongly criticized him for that position.
Third, the Nuremberg Trials were good enough for the Nazis.
Fourth, if Obama cannot take bin Laden alive, he will not hesitate to have him killed. However, Obama would prefer not to make him a martyr.
Fifth, criminal trials for terrorists don't prevent you from conducting military and intelligence operations against terrorists not in the criminal justice system. You can do both! I know, it's hard to believe, but it's true!
Sixth, Obama was talking about the recent Supreme Court decision. That decision does not require trials in civilian courts with full American constitutional rights. McCarthy should understand this. He is either a terrible lawyer or being dishonest. Habeas corpus only requires that the federal government show to a court why a person is being detained. That ought to be a pretty easy thing to do.
If a terrorist inside the United States carries out an attack, and our police forces capture him alive, what do we do with him? Execute him without a trial?
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