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Okay...hold up...wait a minute
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 3:00 pm
by GalvestonDuck
Just WHY are these people being tried in Germany when the crime was committed here in the US?????
http://www.msnbc.com/news/1004019.asp?0cv=CB10
Excerpt from article:
Judge frees 9/11 suspect in Germany
HAMBURG, Germany, Dec. 11 — The trial of a Moroccan man accused of helping the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers appeared close to collapse Thursday after the court announced that the German federal police had provided information, apparently taken from the interrogation of a top al Qaeda planner in U.S. custody, that the defendant had no advance knowledge of the plot.
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 9:46 pm
by BEER980
Well the plan was organized in Germany and I guess he was caught there.
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 9:58 pm
by Josephine96
That would make sense I guess. If he was caught in Germany, he has his trial there..
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 10:35 pm
by GalvestonDuck
Josephine96 wrote:That would make sense I guess. If he was caught in Germany, he has his trial there..
Robert Durst was caught in Pennsylvania. Yet the crime happened here in TX and he was sent back here to be tried in TX. I still don't get it.
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 10:38 pm
by mf_dolphin
In this case the crime was committed in Germany. He is accused of aiding the US terrorists from Germany.
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 10:51 pm
by Josephine96
LOL That makes more sense
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 11:30 pm
by wx247
GalvestonDuck wrote:Josephine96 wrote:That would make sense I guess. If he was caught in Germany, he has his trial there..
Robert Durst was caught in Pennsylvania. Yet the crime happened here in TX and he was sent back here to be tried in TX. I still don't get it.
I have a feeling that they must have wanted to try him there instead of extraditing him to the US. If the crime occurs within the US and they catch them in another state, it is usually easy to extradite.
Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 8:48 am
by GalvestonDuck
Ah, thanks Marshall and Garrett.