They don't mention where the information comes from which led to his arrest by the CIA. I'm wondering if it came from someone caught during military ops or part of black ops? Lets assume yes for now. Even so, that creates quite a debacle. You have one detained by military who was caught during military exercises (playing what if because this scenario doesnt' provide clear options) who gives you information about their 'network' or 'cell's which leads you to someone operating in another country (Not an unlikey scenario for terrorists). You arrest that person, but then, who has jurisidiction? If he was arrested for suspected terrorist activity in Macedonia, shouldn't it be Macedonia? On the 0ther hand, it crosses into that military operations line because of how the information was obtained. A conundrum. I'm not clear, but I know that I'm not comfortable with how it happened. In my opinion, his rights were abused. He was not picked up in Iraq or Afghanistan, but he may have been arrested because of suspected relationship with those who were or based on information from other detainees.

Still, it should have been Macedonia which could have fought with Germany trying him (just as is done now with murders etc) unless both Macedonia and Germany elected to turn him over to the U.S.

Each situation has to be looked at and considered for the human rights picture as well as every other consideration.



>Come on, get real. There is a complete difference between immigrants or visitors caught here committing a crime or being here illegally - they are already processed in the civilian court system. This is about enemy combatants caught during military or terrorist operations in a country our military is under combat operations in. Two different worlds.
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>I have *not* checked if currently in Gitmo there is someone picked up "elsewhere" like this guy who was flown to Afghanistan. Let's just say that not all US actions can be clearly put into one of the baskets mentioned above.
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>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/01/world/europe/01germany.html
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>Not that I am saying that due procedure has to be followed in every situation, but there are cases that seem lopsided.
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>regards
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>thomas