At 3:15 PM -0600 11/3/04, Yaron Brook, Ayn Rand Institute wrote:
>Dear Editor:
>
>It will be a terrible injustice if Yasser Arafat dies of natural
>causes, rather than being brought to justice and executed for his
>crimes.
>
>Among the uncountable atrocities perpetrated by this 'grandfather of
>Islamic terrorism' and his minions are: the cold-blooded killing of
>U.S. diplomats in Sudan in 1973; the murder of crippled American
>citizen, Leon Klinghoffer, aboard the cruise ship Achille Lauro, in
>1985; and countless acts of murder against Israeli civilians.
>
>The U.S. government, whose proper moral role is to protect the lives
>and property of American citizens and to preserve and dispense
>justice, cannot let such crimes as Arafat's go unpunished. If
>international terrorists are not available to the U.S. justice
>system, justice should be brought to them.
>
>Decades of appeasing Arafat and his heirs have delivered a single
>unmistakable message to Islamic tyrants and the terrorists they
>support: Americans can be murdered with impunity. Arafat's execution
>would help to dispel that lethal message, deliver justice and save
>American lives.
>
>Dr. Yaron Brook, executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute
>
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