Suit Over Targeted Killings Is Thrown Out

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/08/world/middleeast/08killing.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=suit%20over%20targeted%20killings%20is%20thrown%20out&st=cse

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From: barry levine 
Date: Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:51 AM
Subject: re: Suit Over Targeted Killings Is Thrown Out
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

    Judge John D. Bates is shocking callous to say that "Mr. Awlaki could pursue [his Fifth Amendment Rights to due process of law] himself if he surrendered to American authorities". Anwar al-Awlaki has not been charged with any crime by the U.S. government.  Judge Bates himself has ruled that he is utterly alone in the world.  To rule that al-Awlaki's father didn't have standing to challenge the kill-order, judge Bates had to conclude that the father would suffer no tangible damage if his son were killed.

  If this is the level of law, order and civilization that we propose to bring to Iraq, to Afghanistan and perhaps to Yemen, the locals should resist us tooth and nail.

Barry Levine