On (04 Mar 03) Rob McCart wrote to George Pope...
 RM> GP~On (23 Feb 03) Doug Powless wrote to George Pope...
 RM>   ~ DP> GP> Do recall that bin Laden only exists because the CIA
 RM> recruited,
 RM>   ~ DP> trained,
 RM>   ~ DP> GP> and financed him over the past twenty years! :P
 RM>   ~ DP>
 RM>   ~ DP> No, I didn't know that.  Does that mean we shouldn't kill him
 RM> when we
 RM>   ~ DP> get the chance then?
 RM>
 RM> GP~What if the LAPD found a bum on the street, gave him a gun & paid
 RM> him
 RM>   ~$1,000 to kill someone, would this bum be liable for the death
 RM> penalty?
 RM>
 RM> I don't think the CIA recruited Bin Laden to go after Americans.

No, but they did create the monster(IF, in fact, he IS a monster (his
terrorism was all at the ultimate behest of the White House!)

 RM> He's used his training the same way an ex military explosives expert
 RM> might use his training to blow up schools and churches.

If the ex-military explosives' expert learned that he was on a
liquidation list, he might well attack those who were planning to
terminate him! (maybe because he "knows too much"?)

 RM> And as I understand it, Yes, the bum is liable for the death penalty
 RM> as much as the person who hired him. Usually the 'hit man' gets a
 RM> lighter sentence making a deal to turn in the person who hired him.

Exactly -- so usually the hired hitman doesn't get executed!

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