[lbo-talk] Hersh: How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib

[C. G. Estabrook]

Surely you're not suggesting that, because we might not be able to prove
Osama bin Laden's responsibility for 9/11 in a court of law (as the head
of the FBI admitted eight months after the bombing), we therefore get to
kill thousands of Afghans and Iraqis? --CGE

On Mon, 17 May 2004 uvj at vsnl.com wrote:


> C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> 
> > Assume that, in the fall of 2001, forces from UNOTKIDN (UN Office for
> > Terrorist Kinesis, Informatics, and Dire Noetics -- headed by three
> > generals, a Brazilian, an Iranian, and an Indian) demands the extradition
> > of Osama bin Laden from Afghanistan and that the Taliban replies (as they
> > did) that they want evidence of of ObL's involvement, and that he be tried
> > before Muslim judges.  UNOTKIDN provides the evidence, establishes the
> >court, and ObL and his lieutenants in Afghanistan are delivered up for trial
> 
> What would constitute the valid proof in a situation involving _covert
> and deniable_ acts of terror? What kind of proof would have been
> acceptable to Taliban? Based on Islamic jurisprudence, perhaps?
>