Somehow I knew this was coming. The multitude of people from various walks of life have been trying to get to the bottom of who perpetrated 9/11 and who benefitted from it since that day. Leave it to the administration to think up a smoke and mirrors cover that they have put forth with this new deception !! You know the shame is that the majority of the populace will swallow it hook,line and sinker. I WILL NOT !!!!! My hope is that this action will open up a can of worms the Neo-Cons aren't ready for.
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has instructed U.S. diplomats abroad to defend its decision to seek the death penalty for six Guantanamo Bay detainees accused in the Sept. 11 terror attacks by recalling the executions of Nazi war criminals after World War II.
A four-page cable sent to U.S. embassies and obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press says that execution as punishment for extreme violations of the laws of war is internationally accepted and points to the 1945-46 International Military Tribunals as an example. Twelve of Adolf Hitler's senior aides were sentenced to death at the trials in Nuremberg, Germany, although not all were executed in the end.
The unclassified cable was sent by the State Department to all U.S. diplomatic missions worldwide late on Monday.
In it, the department advises American diplomats to refer to Nuremberg if asked by foreign governments or media about the legality of capital punishment in the 9/11 cases.
"International Humanitarian Law contemplates the use of the death penalty for serious violations of the laws of war," says the cable, which was written by the office of the department's legal adviser, John Bellinger.
"The most serious war criminals sentenced at Nuremberg were executed for their actions," it said.
The cable makes no link between the scale of the crimes perpetrated by the Nazis, which included the Holocaust that killed some 6 million European Jews and other minorities, and those allegedly committed by the Guantanamo detainees, who are accused of murder and war crimes in connection with 9/11, in which nearly 3,000 people died.
But it makes clear that the U.S. administration sees Nuremberg as a historic precedent in asking for the Sept. 11 defendants to be executed.
Rest of the blather at.... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080212/...1_trials_nazis
Lets hope it works and we can hang these savages.
This went right over your head
Posted by playa2:
This went right over your head
I think he is being sarcastic.
PS: I don't believe 9/11 was an inside job and if those guys are guilty, I have no problem with seeking the death penalty. I have researched the events on 9/11 but I still cannot find any solid evidence that it wasn't the Taliban. 9/11 was the worst thing that happened in this city and the people responsible should pay in kind but I don't think you can draw a Nuremberg parallel.
[Edited by - Silverfuel on 02-13-2008 11:24 AM]
