> >... It is devilishly hard to combine an acknowledgment
> >of the role of U.S. policy in creating the conditions in which
> >terrorists can arise with a sense that justice requires the
> >perpetrators be punished and future acts of mass murder prevented.
Exactly right. But surely the US is bound by treaty to do that through the Security Council, perhaps by means of a special court like those formed for Lockerbie or the FRY, and SC authorization for the apprehension of the 9/11 criminals. --CGE