G'day,
in the last few nights there have been a few interesting articles on the
news about the US govt investigation of the Khobar bombing in the Saudi
kingdom. Aside from the geopolitical issues at play in this issue, what
was very interesting was the US claim to global legal jurisdiction (as it
seemed in the articles). It reminded me quite strongly of the
extra-judiciality [sorry if my memory has scrambled this word] by treaty
of Westerners and Japanese in 19th c. China.
Mind you, i have only had limited access to the net and news in the last
few days, so i may have misunderstood it. Is there, essentially, a claim
to global jurisdiction?
cheers
Ibrahim Underwood
