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Article #6327Re: FANTASTIC NEWS: U.S. SMASHES TWO TERRORIST BASES
From: Merlin Dorfman
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 00:00
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Ron Natalie (ron@sensor.com) wrote:
: TarlaStar wrote:
: >
: >
: > An assassination team...funded by the Government? Sorry, there are
: > laws against that for a reason. Ever hear of National Sovereignty? We
: > don't have any right to go into another county and assassinate people
: > without officially declaring war against them. You want us to become
: > our enemies. How, then, do we tell the two apart?
: Seems like we've been going into countries and killing people without
: the benfit of officially declaring war on them since 1950.
There was an Executive Order in the 70s to prohibit assassinations
of foreign leaders--this was after the Church Committee revelations
about Castro, Nicaragua, etc.--but it is only an Executive Order and
can be revoked at any time, and it doesn't address clandestine
operations that are not aimed at leaders but might kill "nobodies"
who happened to be in the way...
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106ed4,ac0b5617f58cd213 X-Google-Attributes: gid106ed4,public X-Google-Thread: 108b95,25a14be0f8ea6131 X-Google-Attributes: gid108b95,public X-Google-Thread: 101049,25a14be0f8ea6131 X-Google-Attributes: gid101049,public X-Google-Thread: fa37c,ac0b5617f58cd213 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa37c,public X-Google-Thread: 10a12a,ac0b5617f58cd213 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a12a,public X-Google-Thread: 10fa57,ac0b5617f58cd213 X-Google-Attributes: gid10fa57,public From: dorfman@netcom.com (Merlin Dorfman) Subject: Re: FANTASTIC NEWS: U.S. SMASHES TWO TERRORIST BASES Date: 1998/08/24 Message-ID: <dorfmanEy7psF.5sD@netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 384323973 Sender: dorfman@netcom2.netcom.com References: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980820173805.1730A-100000@alumni.umbc.edu> <35DD5A87.3447@newscatz.com> <35DDEE18.310F@erols.com> <6rp1mr$26g@enews1.newsguy.com> <6rqqu1$45f$1@ionews.ionet.net> <RVgE1.2139$bV.5280591@news.rdc1.pa.home.com> <6rse2a$b4v@enews2.newsguy.com> <35E1D0B3.C7569337@sensor.com> Organization: ICGNetcom Followup-To: dc.general,nj.general,ok.general,ca.general,ny.general,md.general Newsgroups: dc.general,nj.general,ok.general,ca.general,ny.general,md.general