One for the theoretical lawyers/historians/politicians…
What if bin Laden had formally requested asylum in England? And, if 9/11 still happened, how would the Labour government have coped with the problem deporting him to the US, where surely the Federal lawyers would push for the death penalty?
Given the current floundering to deport terrorist suspects back to their countries of origin, even with ‘memoranda of understanding’ that torture and capital punishment would not be used, could we have come to some sort of similar agreement with our Atlantic Cousins? One probably feels not. So, probably with considerable grinding of Cherie’s teeth, we would either have had to find some way of conveniently by-passing Osama’s human rights (if you believe such things exist at all, even for suspected mass-murderers) or faced the most insurmountable diplomatic pressure imaginable. I would not have been too surprised to see photos of US Navy Seals raiding HMP Belmarsh.
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I have often seen reminiscences of people I have never even heard of, and I fail to see -- because I do not happen to be a 'Somebody' -- why my blog should not be interesting. My only regret is that I did not commence it when I was a youth.
