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Saturday, April 23, 2005 |
"Judge Clementina Forleo outraged Italian authorities earlier this year by dropping charges against suspected Islamic militants accused of helping to recruit suicide bombers for Iraq - saying the alleged crimes amounted to foreign guerrilla activity, which is not illegal in Italy.
But the reasoning behind her ruling was only released today.
Besides a lack of evidence linking them to an international terrorism network, alone enough to clear the defendants, Judge Forleo ruled the alleged crimes could not be considered 'terrorist' under conventional international doctrine.
'The dividing line between guerrilla activity and terrorism is drawn almost unanimously from international doctrine,' she wrote in the 69-page document.
'The differentiating factor ... does not appear to be the instrument used (to attack), but the target in one's sights,' she said, adding 'terrorists' attack indiscriminately instead of distinguishing between civilian and military targets.
Foreign guerrilla activity, not a crime in an Italian court, instead targets 'a foreign occupying army or against a state structure held by the combatants as illegitimate'.
She also warned defining 'every violent act' by irregular forces as terrorist risked 'comprising people's right to self-determination and independence'."
As the Bush administration indiscriminately targets militants and civilians, Bush is, indeed, a terrorist; together with his friend Blair.
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© Copyright 2005 Hetty Litjens.
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