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**AbraroLib** · 10-02-2011, 06:18 PM

I'd like to point out that there is a thing called territoriality of law, which means that laws apply to a jurisdiction where they can be enforced. A person in the United States (whether they are a citizen or not) is entitled to the rights afforded by the Constitution and our law. Outside the US those rights do not apply, simply for the fact that they cannot be enforced outside our land.

Anwar al-Aulaqi was an Al Qaeda leader, he was a spokesman for AQ and directly inspired numerous terrorist attacks on US citizens. He was a terrorist and an enemy combatant. If he was living in New Jersey we would have sent a SWAT team to arrest him and put him on trial (whether he was an American citizen or not). But he wasn't in New Jersey, he was in a lawless corner of Yemen and the Yemenis are in no position to arrest him b/c they can barely control their own nation.

The President, the military and the CIA did the absolute right thing in removing this man from the human race.

10-02-2011, 06:18 PM	#36
AbraroLib Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 402 Senior Member	I'd like to point out that there is a thing called territoriality of law, which means that laws apply to a jurisdiction where they can be enforced. A person in the United States (whether they are a citizen or not) is entitled to the rights afforded by the Constitution and our law. Outside the US those rights do not apply, simply for the fact that they cannot be enforced outside our land. Anwar al-Aulaqi was an Al Qaeda leader, he was a spokesman for AQ and directly inspired numerous terrorist attacks on US citizens. He was a terrorist and an enemy combatant. If he was living in New Jersey we would have sent a SWAT team to arrest him and put him on trial (whether he was an American citizen or not). But he wasn't in New Jersey, he was in a lawless corner of Yemen and the Yemenis are in no position to arrest him b/c they can barely control their own nation. The President, the military and the CIA did the absolute right thing in removing this man from the human race.
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