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To: Bill who wrote (45643)	2/25/2006 12:08:38 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

"some guy got busted for promising to pay someone to kill his wife" Presumably the prosecutor who charged him actually had jurisdiction. You insisted Dubai should extradite someone to the US for an alleged crime the US has no jurisdiction over. In addition, I suspect, though I am not a lawyer, one needs to make just a tad more of a connection than you have between words and an actual plan to commit murder before one can charge conspiracy to commit murder or murder for hire. Perhaps, if he had actually uttered the words in the US (or Denmark, which has just a wee bit more of a legal interest here), some ambitious prosecutor might charge him with making terroristic threats or soliciting for murder for hire or some such thing, but again, he is in Pakistan, not the US OR Denmark. We certainly have no jurisdiction over the matter and I doubt Danish law allows prosecution for words spoken by a Pakistani in Pakistan, however heinous the words. Finally, I have to wonder what some cleric's words in Pakistan have to do with Dubai. Are you suggesting some kind of collective guilt of all Muslims for the words of one? Or that none of them can be trusted to do what's right (e.g. extraditing alleged criminals properly indicted) because they all secretly support the extremists? I just don't get what you're trying to say about them. That's not bigoted or xenophobic, that is.