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To: PartyTime who wrote (3162)	5/29/2002 1:05:00 PM
From: mmmary	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12465

party: so you're saying that... ...whatever means, 100% honest or not, the government had to use to keep him in the country was worth it? Obviously if he fled it would mean that he was probably guilty of something and would be found guilty anyway. Then his family in the US would be in a big jam and he could never travel to US friendly nations for the rest of his life and he'd lose everything he has here, probably never see his family again. This would be as bad as being in prison. Justice served? I've always posted that if he's guilty, he should pay for his crimes.

To: PartyTime who wrote (3162)	5/29/2002 8:23:15 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12465

If Bin Laden were brought to the US and charged with a crime, I'm not sure there's any crime he could be convicted of by proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Maybe I just haven't seen the evidence. He certainly hates us, but that's not a crime. He has certainly funded camps where non-government fighters were trained, but as long as it isn't on US soil, that's not a crime. I think he's fair game in the war, and the only hesitancy I have about our killing him is the enormous sympathy it would generate and the additional hatred it would engender for America and Americans. But I'm not personally aware of any crime under U.S. law for which we have sufficient evidence to convict him in a court of law.