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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Yep. Military tribunal, firing squad or hangman's noose. Either way is fine with me.
Charge them as Illegal Combatants in A military court.
Then execute them.
Just cap these scumbums.
They should compromise and offer to give them a free flight 1/2 way to Syria.
They can swim the rest of the way.
Why waste five perfectly good parachutes and instruction manuals?
Why waste a parachute on them?
Drop them on the front lawn of the White Hut.
Nor, for that matter, does it recognize the Convention. As the Convention is a law besides that of Sharia they are prevented from doing so.
Does that mean we can walk up and shoot them no harm no foul?
No, in the end, I’m certain that the law will be on their side, not ours.
I am waiting for the Justice Department to take their side.
Shouldn’t be too long...
Okay, I guess I should have stated as thus, They are not covered under the Geneva Convention, thus they garner no protections.
Minnesota again. And who are the Democrat senators (Al Frankenstein for one)? Secy of State is/or was Mark Ritchie, a Communist Party sympathizer. Mayor of Minneapolis and chiefs of police over the decades? Does Anthony Bourza ring a bell?
Minneapolis, aka “Little Somalia”, terrorists and all.
Something is rotten in Minnesota, like Democrats. Somebody had better do something before a lot of innocent people get killed up there.
I say hangman’s noose why waste the ammo? Hanging lets them know they are dying.
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