If British troops capture Bin Laden... they will hand him over IMMEDIATELY

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Pocatello

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Here's the deal, since only a few Brits were killed in the WTC, we should divide bin Laden up. The UK can have his one of his thumbs. The Afghans suffered from bin Laden too, they should get one of the legs, we can divide more if other nations want parts of him. We keep the rest, everyone is happy.
 

JellyBaby

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The key is neutralizing him. Why get caught up in the frenzy of what to do with one terrorist leader?

My suggestion: as punishment, make Bin Laden take western civics courses. ;)
 

yllus

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<< You don't put people like Bin Laden in jail. You shoot them on site when their found. Do you have any fscking idea what would happen if Bin laden was put in a jail? There would be suicide bombings in America 24/7. September 11 would be nothing compared to what the Islamic terrorists would do to get Bin Laden out of jail. You don't people like Bin Laden in jail. >>


Yup, I agree, martyrism is a huge myth (where's the liberal thing come from? :p ). Putting him in jail is just ASKING for it - can you imagine all the hostage situations that would take place demanding for OBL's release? If they really are 100% sure of his guilt, find him, end it.



<< Torturing him has NO benefit to ANYONE. >>


Depends. Make it grisly enough and you might give anyone deliberating taking over his role second thoughts but I doubt that'd work in this situation...
 

Hamburgerpimp

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I seriously doubt he was entirely to blame for September 11th. It was a multi-state funded and executed operation. To outline his Agenda for the rest of his term, Bush and his advisors have pushed the hunt for Bin Laden as one of their main military objectives.
 
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well first of all Bin Laden wont be taken alive, if he doesnt have his people kill him when surrounded are you gonna tell me that hte first soldiers who see him are gonna just shoot him, or at least kick the livin sh*t out of him.

2nd we do not want him alive, not only for terrorist attacks to release him, but the more likely scenario which is expected is that Al Queda would try to pull off outstanding kidnappings to try and trade for bin laden. This is not a hard thing to do since there are so many important people in the world, not all of them have the security that the president has.

i am pretty sure we will not see bin laden alive. if we do, it wont be for very long.
 

perry

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Charge him with some crappy little crime, like money laundering, get him sent over, then charge him w/ 4000 counts of murder, then seek the death penalty. UK didn't know we wanted the death penalty, until new charges were brought against him after he got here.

Better yet, just throw him in the general population at one of NYC's prisons. He won't last too long.
 

Skyclad1uhm1

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Kill him and they have another martyr. Inprison him without allowing him contact with the outside world and they wont publicly take another leader, as that would show the world they have given up on Bin Laden. More chance on internal problems that way.
 

jpsj82

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<< Here's the deal, since only a few Brits were killed in the WTC, we should divide bin Laden up. The UK can have his one of his thumbs. The Afghans suffered from bin Laden too, they should get one of the legs, we can divide more if other nations want parts of him. We keep the rest, everyone is happy. >>



just to let you know it wasn't a few brits that died it was a few hundred.



<< Are you all aware that 30% of the American Muslim population is African American prisoners who have converted to Islam? This little fact was told to me by a Muslim. If Bin Laden was placed in an American prison, he would be treated as a God. >>



are you aware that most muslims don't support bin Laden.
 

XMan

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You know, I find it funny that Britain doesn't want the US to execute bin Laden.

Back in World War 2, they were calling for Hitler's head, and surely would have put him in front of a firing squad if the weasel hadn't taken care of the job himself.
 

Shantanu

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<< Any more questions?

Yeah, what gives you the right to call for someone's death?
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You sound like a broken fscking record. What gives your sorry ass the right to proclaim that Bin Laden be kept alive? That dozens or perhaps hundreds of U.S. patriots be sacrificed in attempting to bring him in? That thousands more be killed by terrorists who attempt to get him out.
 

damocles

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<< You know, I find it funny that Britain doesn't want the US to execute bin Laden.

Back in World War 2, they were calling for Hitler's head, and surely would have put him in front of a firing squad if the weasel hadn't taken care of the job himself.
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I'm not sure if that is accurate, although there was no doubt public opinion that would have favoured that outcome. I could be wrong, but i cant recall any Nazis being executed by the British after WW2?
 

XMan

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<< << You know, I find it funny that Britain doesn't want the US to execute bin Laden.

Back in World War 2, they were calling for Hitler's head, and surely would have put him in front of a firing squad if the weasel hadn't taken care of the job himself. >>



I'm not sure if that is accurate, although there was no doubt public opinion that would have favoured that outcome. I could be wrong, but i cant recall any Nazis being executed by the British after WW2?
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Results of the Nuremburg Trial . . .

Hermann Goering was sentenced to death by hanging.

Rudolf Hess was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Hans Frank was sentenced to death by hanging.

Wilhelm Frick was sentenced to death by hanging.

Julius Streicher was sentenced to death by hanging.

Walter Funk was sentenced to life imprisonment

Fritz Sauckel was sentenced to death by hanging.

Alfred Jodl was sentenced to death by hanging.

Martin Bormann was sentenced (in absentia) to death by hanging.

Joachim von Ribbentrop was sentenced to death by hanging.

Wilhelm Keitel was sentenced to death by hanging.

Ernst Kaltenbrunner was sentenced to death by hanging.

Alfred Rosenberg was sentenced to death by hanging.

Artur Seyss-Inquart was sentenced to death by hanging.

Was it by a British court? Nope. Nuremburg was run by an International Military Tribunal. (Gasp! But we can't do that! That would be infringing their Constitutional Rights!)

The International Military Tribunal finished its work and handed down its verdicts on October 1, 1946, ironically, on the Jewish Day of Atonement. Of the 22 defendants, 11 were given the death penalty, 3 were acquitted, 3 were given life imprisonment and four were given imprisonment ranging from 10 to 20 years. Those sentenced to death were hanged at Spandau Prison on October 6, 1946. Those acquitted were placed in the inept denazification program following the trial. Those who received prison sentences were sent to Spandau Prison.

What has happened since Nuremberg? As noted earlier, while many of the prominent Nazi leaders were tried, many others escaped prosecution. Some fled the country and were able to conceal their identity for many years. However, since the close of the Nuremberg Trials, many have been located and extradited for trial. In 1947, Herman Hoess, Commandant of Auschitz, was tried and executed in Poland. In 1962, Adolph Eichmann was tried and executed in Jerusalem. Due to the zealous efforts of Simon Wiesenthal and his organization, the search continues. However, for most of the world, the Nuremberg Trials were a symbolic expression of outrage over the atrocities of the Nazi organization. Once done, however, it seems that the major concern was to put the whole matter in the past and forget it. It is highly doubtful, to use Justice Jackson's words, that we have eliminated "the causes" and laid the basis for preventing "the repetition of these barbaric events."


THE NUREMBERG TRIALS: THE DEFENDANTS AND VERDICTS
 

JC

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Feb 1, 2000
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As much as I feel Bin Laden should be the first public execution here in a long time, denying him the martyr status that terrorists like him want might be the best way to deal with
him and future terrorists.
 

PistachioByAzul

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It's so easy to talk about killing people, from the comfort of your home. Your hatred accomplishes nothing other than making you less of a person and more of a dumb animal.
 

jjones

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It's so easy to talk about killing people, from the comfort of your home. Your hatred accomplishes nothing other than making you less of a person and more of a dumb animal.
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I don't have any hatred towards Osama bin Hidin' but I think he should be tried by a military tribunal and then executed. He is guilty of international crimes of terrorism and murder and I strongly believe in the death penalty in such cases; so do many, many others. This is not about being in the comfort of my home and pronouncing sentence; it's about removing a terrorist and murderer from society so that he will not be allowed to have any further impact upon it. And in my opinion, the quickest, most efficient, and fair means of doing that is by a military tribunal followed by his execution.
 

Balt

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<<It's so easy to talk about killing people, from the comfort of your home. Your hatred accomplishes nothing other than making you less of a person and more of a dumb animal.>>


*rolling eyes* oh please. What would you have us do, love Osama bin Laden? Hatred is the most instinctive emotion to feel for someone like Hitler or Osama bin Laden. Someone who has no problem murdering thousands (or millions) for any reason.

Now, you may say that the instinctive emotion is more primitive, and you might be right, but survival is also a primitive desire and I think I like it. To not hate someone so evil seems sociopathic to me.

Just my dumb opinion.


Edit: Oh, by the way, I think most would agree that the reason to kill Osama bin Laden is because it's the smartest thing to do, not just because we hate him. Keeping him alive would just be too much of a liability and an opportunity for more little bin Laden's to demand his release by extreme measures.