>>This is really new territory for law enforcement and intelligence operatives. I don't think the answers are black and white. It is more complex in real life than in newspapers. The goal is not really how many of these people can be convicted and imprisoned but rather how can their organizations be neutralized and prevented from causing destruction in our homelands. Those are not always the same thing.
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>This weekend Obama stated terrorists caught
on the battlefield should be read their rights...
Maybe he wanted to show how absurd it all is? This mix of war-on-a-word, war-instead-of-police, and actual war and occupation? How does one mirandize the enemy general? :)