Sorry, I missed what court found these folks guilty of treason and sentenced them to death. You know, that pesky due process thing.
Yeah.. war's kind of inconvenient, isn't it??.. Treasonous bastards seldom stick around where our law enforcement folks have jurisdiction. Would love to capture, extradite, and try them as the traitors they are, but life isn't that simple.
But treason is treason.. And if that person is actively aiding and abetting the enemy in order to harm the US, or American citizens, it's "open season" on him. They can be hunted and killed just like any other enemy of the US. Because, in fact, they ARE the enemy.
Remember "Axis Sally" and "Tokyo Rose"? They were US citizens too!!
Law:
allbusiness.com
washingtonpost.com
And this fellow as well, who happens to be a US citizen living in Yemen:
The revelation by Christmas Day airliner bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab that radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki directed him to perpetrate the attack will put increased pressure on the U.S. military to capture or kill the alleged mastermind of the plot....
...In addition to his role in the Christmas Day attack, Al-Awlaki, reportedly the chief cleric for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), was a player in the November's shootings at Ft. Hood.
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the officer accused in the Nov. 5, 2009 Fort Hood slaying of 13 member of the military, attended sermons at a Falls Church, Va., mosque where al-Awlaki was the former imam, and communicated with radical cleric via email. Al-Awlaki has maintained that he supported Hasan's actions but denied having any involvement in the attack.
"I did not recruit Nidal Hasan to this operation; the one who recruited him was America, with its crimes and injustice, and this is what America refuses to admit," Al-Awlaki said.
Al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen born in New Mexico, has already been in the crosshairs of Yemeni attacks, aided by U.S. intelligence. According an AP report, on the day before the Christmas Day attack, President Obama approved an air strike on a compound in Yemen where al-Awlaki was supposedly a resident. Al-Awlaki is thought to have survived the attack.
cbsnews.com
Anyone here agree that it's permissible to kill these individuals (although preferable to capture and indict them)??
The evidence if very clear that they are committing treason by inciting and encouraging attacks against the US. That's evidence that cannot be questioned since we have video and written evidence to that effect.
Should they be permitted to live?? Thumbs up? Or Thumbs Down?
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