>Yeah, we're pretty much on the same page on that one. If they were a legitimate green-light with a red-dot on them I would think their welfare isn't the top priority..l

Qustion is ;
Were they leigitimate 'green-light with a red-dot on them' targets at first place ?
It is on thing to capture and then detain real terrorists as in let say those ex intelligence 'assets',
(hence that Omar Khalid Al-Whatever and allegedly even OBL himeself), while it is different to 'red-dot' and then detain some angry Afganistan sheppards for holding guns in vicinity of their own homes.
Circumstances and indept unbiased examination would of big importance here.

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If you are talking about true AQ hardliners with some of them being even 'ex assets' , then I might even support that 'middle of the sea idea', provided that they are dropped there along with entire hierarchy of their ex recruiters, from the middlemen and all the way to the
top {vbg}
But Naah. That is barbaric.
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Fair trials (preferably public) in a proper courts would be perhaps much more productive (and interesting) for everybody.