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US Forces Undertake Two African Raids, Capture Embassy Bombing Figure
CNN reports that two separate U.S. military operations have taken place this weekend in Africa; the first in Tripoli, the second in Somalia. "In the earlier raid, U.S. forces captured Abu Anas al Libi, an al Qaeda operative wanted for his role in the deadly 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. In the second raid, a team of U.S. Navy SEALs in southern Somalia targeted the top leader of Al-Shabaab, a terrorist group linked with al Qaeda." According to the report, it's unclear for now whether the second of these attempts was successful. Unsurprisingly, the Libyan raid has raised the ire of the interim government there, which has objected to the U.S. arrest and removal of al Libi (to an undisclosed placed outside of Libya) as a kidnapping.
The nano-diamond hypothesis is upheld. This is why US/UK stopped barking up that tree. Moonofalabama - and b - are critical to having called that bluff.
Go back to your social-media spin job for USAF or Shin Bet, where they can school you better than this....
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Unfortunately you are overlooking a key piece of information: his status is determined under the Law of War, not under criminal statue. He can be held indefinitely as a prisoner of war, just as the Germans were in WW2 - at least until the conflict is over. No trial is necessary since it isn't a question of criminal law. That doesn't mean that he can't be tried, either for war crimes or criminal offenses under ordinary criminal law. Perhaps that will happen at some future date.
In summary, he can be held indefinitely, and it is perfectly legal and correct to do so.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell