Posted on 02/04/2016 5:16:18 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
Five Twin Cities men accused of plotting to go to fight alongside ISIL in Syria are asking a federal judge to drop murder conspiracy charges on grounds that they have "combatant immunity" under both common and international law.
They say combatants are immune from criminal prosecutions for acts of war, including murder, against military targets.
The five -- Hamza Ahmed, brothers Adnan and Mohamed Farah, Abdirahman Daud and Guled Omar -- are scheduled to appear in federal court in Minneapolis next week for a hearing on that and other motions in the case, which is set to go to trial May 9.
The men were charged last year with conspiring to leave the United States to fight with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). In October, the government filed a new indictment that added a charge of conspiracy to commit murder, which attorneys for the men say should not apply.
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Huh?
Ask some SS men about that legal concept.
Apply Hitler’s Commando Order if they weren’t in full uniform at the time of the arrest.
If they’re “combatants” they weren’t in uniforms....they can be considered spies and executed.
Boot them out of a plane, with a parachute and instruction manual. Over Somalia, I think, why should the Syrians have to deal with them?
These guys watched the Law And Order episode.
They will lose, ISIS is not recognized under the Geneva Convention.
Why do I think that a certain MN member of Congress is going to get involved in this?
Unless he already is...
Fine, court martial and execute them as non-uniformed spies, saboteurs, and terrorists.
If that's the way it works, then they are military targets, and we can summarily kill them with impunity.
Wait till the Crips and Bloods file their cases.
Did Obama or Bill Clinton appoint the judge?
They are traitors to this nation and have admitted to their allegiance with the enemy.
Of course they are, as mercenaries. They have no rights.
I was thinking more the Pacific garbage patch rather than Africa.
Combatants out of uniform? If I was a judge I would rule in their favor. I would send them out the rear of the courthouse to face a firing squad.
.45 rounds are cheap
He’s involved, all right, he’s the main reason they’re here.
Slimey, anti American, scumbag.
Holy Crap. We are in bizarro world.
The Feds are saying these guys aren’t covered under the Geneva Conventions for the same reasons SCOTUS specifically shot down in 2006 and the US agreed to comply.
The defense for these guys says they are covered under the Geneva Conventions.
Seems like they should go to GITMO until that question is re-settled.
Let’s NEVER forget the do-gooder morons who brought Somalis into the country as “refugees.” What a mess they left us.
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