On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 22:52:20 +0200 (CEST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) wrote:
> PS: SAM
> Terror attacks don't only hit military targets. They primarily hit civil
> targets (as sad as this is)
Legalistically speaking, attacks delivered against military targets
are not terror attacks, provided such attacks are carried out in
accordance with the International Laws of War. Attacks directed
at the civilian populace are terror attacks. They are also war
crimes if carried out by a military force or if carried out by
others acting under orders from a government. The legalists like
to make distinctions between "war criminals" and ordinary
criminals, although the sentences for those found guilty are
usually equally severe in either case. It is important to make the
distinctions between war crimes and ordinary crimes in order to
determine who should be charged, and for which offences, and who
should have jurisdiction over the proceedings against the
defendants.
> If it was intended as an attack of humanity than there would have been
> attacks worldwide.
No. Some of the Nazi war criminals were convicted of crimes
against humanity based on evidence of what they did to their own
people in their own country. I do know an attack on humanity
doesn't necessarily involve an extensive broad-reaching attack
against people in other countries, otherwise none of the Serbian
defendants would have been charged with crimes against humanity.
None were accused of attacking anyone outside the borders of their
own country. I have never seen the full text of the internationally
accepted "legal definition" of the term "crime against humanity".
If somebody on this list knows the internationally accepted
definition of this term, please post it, or please refer us to a
URL where we might learn to understand what it means.
> It was an attack at the 'satan' called usa. They firmly believe in this
> view, and it is partly motivated by US foreign politics.
Regardless of how firmly they believe in this view, there are no
circumstances which could tend to excuse and mitigate their actions.
I don't like US foreign politics either. My dislike for US foreign
politics does not provide me or anyone else with a justification for
murdering anybody. There can never be any justification whatsoever
for committing an outright murder.
<snip>
Sam Heywood
-- See our Big Gizmotimetemp at
-- http://banners.wunderground.com/banner/gizmotimetempbig/US/VA/Mt_Jackson.gif
