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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
If they did the crime, they should pay the price according to the law of the state. The European countries always make a fuss when someone is to be executed, but I think this kind of pressure is an unseemly use of European power to exert its political ideals extra-territorially. Well, at least the US ain't the only one guilty of that!
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If you had bothered to read the article in full, you would have noticed that the problem here isn't just the punishment - it's the lack of a fair trial and more than just a "hunch feeling" that these Bulgarians were simply the wrong people in the wrong place at the wrong time, ended up being scapegoats. Which wouldn't be all that strange, regarding Libya's more than just a little notorious reputation that it attained under Ghadaffi's dictatorship.
I sincerely hope the US (and why not the EU as well?) can help out to see to a fair trial that doesn't have Ghadaffi's stamp of whimsical approval all over it...
[ 05-19-2004, 06:01 PM: Message edited by: Grojlach ]