The Beatles dilemma: court somewhere or a hole

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A NYC court case that amply illustrates why criminal prosecution can take a long time, here the indictment was for combat in Afghanistan in April 2003 and an undated plot to bomb the US Embassy in Nigeria. Arrested in Italy after arrival as a refugee in 2011, extradited in October 2012 and jailed February 2018.
Link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...81_story.html?

[davidbfpo]

Id'd by Bruce Hoffman and his comment via Twitter:

Read this immensely powerful and compelling plea from eight persons with a gravitas and perspective that cannot be ignored.

Link to the NYT article:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/o...sis-trial.html

[davidbfpo]

Meantime in Denmark there is a trial underway:

The man, in his early twenties, has Somalian heritage, has previously lived in the UK and has a Finnish passport.....He is accused by the state prosecutor of spending 20 months in Syria, during which time he joined the Islamic State (Isis) terror group and was trained to handle weapons. If this accusation cannot be proved, the prosecution will seek to convict him for promoting Isis through religious teaching in areas under control of the group....He acted as an imam, an Islamic religious leader, and taught the Qur'an in these areas, according to the prosecution.

Link:https://www.thelocal.dk/20180219/dan...s-to-uk-attack

[davidbfpo]

A neo-con author, Robin Simcox, British now @ The Heritage Foundation, has a lengthy paper.
Link:https://www.heritage.org/terrorism/r...tern-countries