It is time, and past time, for the US to treat al-Qaeda members caught committing atrocities as war criminals, trying them before a tribunal, and if found guilty of war crimes, shooting them.
There have been reports over the course of the war in Iraq, that after several bombings and other murders of civilians, perpetrators were caught. Perhaps now is the time to select 10 or 20 obviously guilty prisoners and giving them the justice they deserve.
There are those that will say that this is barbaric, that it will just inflame Iraqis. But the whole situation is barbaric and what probably inflames Iraqis is getting their relatives blown up at mosque or in school buses and nothing being done. I doubt there is much love lost between Iraqis and "foreign fighters" anyway.
And just maybe someone will think twice before they torture captives to death.
Posted by Kevin Murphy at June 20, 2006 10:50 PM