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  • 29-05-2011 2:35pm
    #1
    smurgen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭


    was watching Euronews there and seen the clip of the Ratko Mladic the former Serb military leader being led away by police as his extradition for trials at the Hague begin. Now im not a military / law / political expert but to me this seems a far greater opportunity for retribution than the form of justice that was dealt out by the american's on Osama Bin Laden. Do you think this form of capture and trial would have been a much more satisfactory treatment for Osama? or did you just prefer the face/bullet treatment he got?


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  • #2
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Pretty sure Bin Laden wasn't expecting kid glove treatment from the Americans and was probably expecting a bullet in the face at least sometime ( regardless of how distasteful it was to many ) than the possibility of having the **** kicked out of him by a bunch of angry Marines


  • #3
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    smurgen wrote: »
    Now im not a military / law / political expert

    :rolleyes:


  • #4
    haydar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 377 ✭✭haydar


    Apparently he or someone made a deal with officials for the ten million reward on his head.

    Read it on newsnow somewhere


  • #5
    gbee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,388 ✭✭✭gbee


    smurgen wrote: »
    Do you think this form of capture and trial would have been a much more satisfactory treatment for Osama? or did you just prefer the face/bullet treatment he got?

    I would except the Osama story is not true and you can be sure if he [Osama] was not dead for years already there would have been the mother n father of trials with retired OJ attorneys offering to work for free and all that.

    Strange thing is, where Ratko comes from, a bullet in the brain and the body in a ditch is a sort of speciality justice system there.


  • #6
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    gbee wrote: »
    Strange thing is, where Ratko comes from, a bullet in the brain and the body in a ditch is a sort of speciality justice system there.
    And Ratko's not going to complain if he spends rest of his life in a cushy jail cell which is where he will go if when convicted


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  • #7
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    smurgen wrote: »
    a far greater opportunity for retribution than the form of justice that was dealt out by the american's on Osama Bin Laden.

    I reckon Bin Laden was dead a long time before the American government ran with the story of his "capture" and "burial at sea".


  • #8
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    Serbia is looking for EU membership and is prepared to play its part in bringing war leaders to trial, all in a prety well established legal system with records of who did what making trials possible. OBL would have been comparatively difficult to bring to trial and convict. He'd also have likely used the platform to spread his message.

    Obviously it's all got a lot less to do with law than political expediency.


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