If these men arrived in a stolen plane there should be some criminal law in Britain they could use? Certainly the plane was still hijacked when it arrived in Britain therefore they should be charged. But today they are walking around free.

BBC: The government has said it will appeal against a decision to allow nine Afghan hijackers to stay in Britain because it was unsafe for them to return home.
Home Secretary John Reid said it was important to challenge any ruling which may "appear inexplicable or bizarre to the general public".

A High Court judge ruled the nine, involved in a four-day stand-off at Stansted Airport in 2000, could remain.

Prime Minister Tony Blair had said the ruling was an "abuse of common sense".
In a statement in Downing Street, Mr Reid said: "When decisions are taken which appear inexplicable or bizarre to the general public, it only reinforces the perception that the system is not working to protect or in favour of the vast majority of ordinary decent, hard-working citizens in this country.

"That is a perception that should worry all of us and it is a perception that all of us should be working to put right."
'Abuse of justice'..

..."We can't have a situation in which people, who hijack a plane, we're not able to deport back to their country," Mr Blair said on Wednesday.

"It's not an abuse of justice for us to order their deportation; it's an abuse of common sense...

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