Yuyutsu,

True. They are not criminals. That is why it is stupid to have civil police and the likes of the FBI dealing with them. There is a war between Islam and the West. Military forces are the only ones who should be involved in combating, destroying, interrogating and punishing them if they haven't been sensibly destroyed in the first instance.

The surviving commander of the 9/11 attack was shocked when America reacted with direct military action instead of handing it over to the FBI to pussy foot about with as had happened prior to George W Bush.

"Terrorists are not criminals - they are enemy combatants."

What unadulterated "nugae sunt istae magnae," or, in the rough, "excrita bovinus".

I would have thought that Australians like Prakash, who have done what he has done, are BOTH criminals and enemy combatants fighting against Australian interests.

As such, they have committed treason, an old-fashioned offense that used to be one of the only crimes earning the death penalty. I wonder if such penalties are still on the books somewhere.

If his only citizenship is Australian, we have to take him back: nobody can be deliberately rendered stateless, that would be a bit cruel, and it breaches international conventions. So what then do we do ?

He can't be allowed to influence anybody else. So what then do we do ?

So we have to take him back. And we have to confine him very severely, for life. So, where ?

Seriously, Betoota may welcome such an employment boost: I'm sure the Betoota Advocate would champion such an initiative. The local hotel could run medals out to him a couple of times a day, and just slip them under his door on returnable paper plates. No cutlery though.

Joe

Sounds like some of you need to brush up on your international law.

Terrorists are not (lawful) enemy combatants in the sense to which Yuyutsu and ttbn refer. Terrorists are are 'unlawful' enemy combatants, and as such are treated as civilian criminals.

You can argue why you think they should be considered lawful enemy combatants (as has been done many times unsuccessfully), but to state so emphatically that terrorists are indeed (lawful) enemy combatants just makes you look silly.

Sorry, I didn't mean " ..... The local hotel could run medals out to him a couple of times a day, and just slip them under his door on returnable paper plates..... "

I meant " ..... The local hotel could run meals out to him a couple of times a day, and just slip them under his door on returnable paper plates...... "

Unlike some on the pseudo-Left, I don't think Prakash should be awarded any medals, although in next year's Liberty awards, he will very likely be considered. All he might have to do is send in a video of himself with a couple of Yazidi girls. Or any of countless other similar videos.

Joe

Dear Joe,

«If his only citizenship is Australian, we have to take him back: nobody can be deliberately rendered stateless, that would be a bit cruel, and it breaches international conventions»

Firstly, nobody would want to come "back" anyway if they know that all that awaits them here is jail. I think that this would be even more cruel!

Now why do you need to take him back?
Australians seem to have this strange habit of saying "I can't" when what they really mean to say is "it would be illegal for me to do it". Of course you CAN render them stateless - you are just caught up in this silly political-correctness attitude, a psychological barrier that prevents you from breaking laws - get over it, go ahead and breach those international conventions if that what it takes!

Nobody is going to benefit from keeping a terrorist in an Australian jail - neither the terrorist nor the tax-payer!