On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Dan Minette wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> My guess is that, since a warship is considered soverign national territory
> and since the attack was on that ship, that the US could claim soverign
> rights to prosecute attacks on that ship. But, the claim is not a unique
> ability of the United States, other countries could prosecute attacks on
> their ships too.
You're thinking of Yemen i believe. Khobar was the apartment block
bombing.
Ibrahim
