Mohammad Haj Bakr al-Saqa is on trial in Turkey for acts of terrorism. Did he actually kill any Americans? None that we know of. However, Saqa, like many in the Middle East, may simply equate
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As he was dragged out of court, the suspect, a Syrian national identified as Loa'i Mohammad Haj Bakr al-Saqa said, "My beliefs prevent me from standing in front of people like you." He added, "I fought a Jihad, I killed Americans.".
Al-Saqa is on trial with 72 other suspected al-Qaida operatives for alleged involvement in a string of suicide bomb attacks in November 2003. Four suicide bombers driving explosives-laden vehicles targeted two synagogues, the British consulate and the Istanbul headquarters of the British HSBC bank.
The British Consul General was among the 58 people who died in the blasts. Most of those killed were Muslim Turks.
Turkish prosecutors charge that al-Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden personally ordered the Syrian to organize the attacks against Jewish and British nationals in Turkey. Al-Saqa and his alleged Syrian accomplice, Hamid Obysi, were captured in Turkey last August after a failed attempt to blow up Israeli cruise ships off Turkey's Mediterranean coast.
Al-Saqa reportedly told interrogators that the plan to kill Israeli tourists was financed by a top al-Qaida militant who allegedly gave him $50,000 to organize the plot.
So I've admitted in the past to having doubts about the death penalty. Guys like this seem to make those doubts disappear.
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Rusty
I don't believe Turkey has the death penalty - think they gave it up to be euronized.
Posted by: hondo at March 20, 2006 02:05 PM (9pQ6D)
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How ironic; over at stormfront, they also automatically label anyone a Jew who isn't a nazi or at least pro-terrorist. Birds of a feather and all that...
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at March 20, 2006 02:21 PM (0yYS2)
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About your doubts, Rusty... these guys apparently want to die (why the hell else would someone do something as stupid as suicide bombings?), a better punishment would be to force them to live out their natural lives in 6'x8' cells 23 hours a day.
Posted by: KG at March 20, 2006 03:11 PM (SZsz5)
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Or go ahead and let them detonate themselves in a controlled environment like in the middle of a big field - alone. And if they chicken out, have a remote control at the ready.
Posted by: Oyster at March 20, 2006 03:24 PM (g9UJq)
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How about sentencing them to live in a 6 by 8 pig pen for the rest of their lives?
Posted by: Rusty at March 20, 2006 03:31 PM (JQjhA)
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Maybe he took Jay Bennish's geography class.
Posted by: CUS at March 20, 2006 03:55 PM (bbXZq)
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Rusty, that's animal cruelty. You'll have PETA all over you.
Posted by: Oyster at March 20, 2006 04:01 PM (g9UJq)
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A 30-06 bullet to the head will do the trick. It's best to get it over with. While they live, they still inspire others, when dead, they are hardly an inspiration. Of course, I mean after a trial for all you libs out there. The rest of us know that is what I mean, but you libs want to pick..pick...pick.
Posted by: jesusland joe at March 20, 2006 04:06 PM (rUyw4)
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Remember what a wise man said, JJ, "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine."
A martyr can be a powerful symbol, especially in the pre-modern world that is much of the Middle East.
Posted by: KG at March 20, 2006 05:39 PM (SZsz5)
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KG, you mean while everyone has to hold on to their crank, and have compassion, be sensitive, and little boys like you are taking hormone shots to get in touch with their female side. What a bunch of crap.
Put someone like J.C. in charge, or better yet, I.M., and there will not be anymore hand holding, and song singing when it comes to stupid mood god worshippers who want to blow themselves up, along with some women, and children.
Islam sucks, and so does their boy Mo. In HELL!
Posted by: Leatherneck at March 20, 2006 06:12 PM (D2g/j)
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Wow, Leatherneck, you got me nailed... I'm against the death penalty as a matter of policy so I must be a girly-man wuss.
You're obviously new to the program... I believe that winning this war (and modernizing the Middle East) is the great challenge of our time. But I don't believe that genocide is the answer. I also believe that torture is below the United States and has been since the days of General Washington.
You want to label me, fine, but take the time to check out either
my new blog or better yet
my old blog, figure out what I actually believe in before you say something so stupid.
Posted by: KG at March 20, 2006 10:16 PM (SZsz5)
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I say make 'em all martyrs.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at March 21, 2006 05:58 AM (0yYS2)
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The only good matyr is a dead matyr!
Posted by: Hailus at March 21, 2006 09:47 AM (Y2ILH)
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