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To: martin001 who wrote (121442)	9/13/2001 8:11:28 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 436258

Good analysis. The US justice system is not the appropriate forum to deal with the perpetrators. In 1993, Mir Aimal Kansi, a Pakistani, shot and killed several CIA employees as they were stopped at a light outside the CIA complex here in Fairfax. Our government paid $2 million to bribe people in Afghanistan to turn him over, and he was tried at the Fairfax Courthouse, across the street from my office. During the trial process, which took months (arraignment, motions, trial, post-trial motions, sentencing), everyone in the court house felt that they were in danger of retaliation. The security measures taken to protect the court from car bombers and metal detectors and guards were not cheap. These measures remain in place today. The judge selected to hear the case was a senior judge who retired immediately afterwards. The jurors, a first in Fairfax, were anonymous. They recommended the death penalty, but Kansi is still exercising his right to appeal, so has not been executed yet. But he will be. All that for one man.