From: "Tony Ingenoso" 

Isolated incidents don't define policy.  In a case like this I suspect the
US military wanted to make sure they had first crack at him so there would
be no claims we couldn't keep our own house in order.

"Thees Peereboom"  wrote in message
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> Tony,
>
> That's a remarkable statement - when your pilot killed these 20 or
> such people in Italy, Italian police was not allowed to enter the
> USbase where he came from to arrest him. The US military claimed it to
> be US soil. The murderer wasn't even allowed to be trialled by or in
> Italy, but was transported back to the US (IIRC, about the day after
> it happened, so I don't understand these complaints about US mil
> bureaucracy either) to be trialled there.
>
> - Thees Peereboom
>
> On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 22:23:37 -0500, "Tony Ingenoso"
>  wrote:
>
> >So if the US leases some property somewhere, it automatically becomes US
soil?  I don't think so.  That may fly for an embassy, but
> >not much else.  I'm sure the US leases all sorts of office space in London
for mundane things.  I doubt we claim jurisdiction on
> >those when some ordinary policing task appears.
> >
> >"Alan Cairns"  wrote in message
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> >> On 04/04/2003 4:07 PM, in article
> >> 7f7s8v822e1r6k95phhtjrscbl71j5e3nq{at}4ax.com, "John Cuccia"
> >>  wrote:
> >>
> >> > So you feel that as long as we take people into custody
in places that
> >> > are not US territory then we aren't bound by the rules
of civilized
> >> > behavior and ethical behavior?
> >>
> >>
> >> Besides which, as a leased military base, Guantanamo is US territory.
> >>
> >> Alan
> >>
> >
>

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