Bob Vila's Hammer's Journal: Terrorists

I find it hard to believe that a terrorist tried in Germany would only get 15 years of jail-term sentencing. In this report at The NY Times, the story goes very simply this man got off easy. I cannot believe that being a direct member of an Al Qeada cell and ties very strongly to the September 11 attacks would get you only 15 years in prison.

The laws are suspect in Germany and I believe they are in France as well. There are groups very highly spread throughout Europe and here in North America as well, but this decision in the courts based on flimsy laws is proving much.

There are intense locations in Europe where Islamic Extremists are allowed to harbor and succeed in their plots and plans and this is where they will only be punished lightly for a tragic incidence killing like September 11th. Those laws should have been updated and/or tried differently. This article says something that disgusts me, that this shows progress in the success of trying court cases such as this in public courts

• Following the verdict, German government officials praised the court's decision and said that despite concerns about security and sensitive intelligence information, the trial showed that terrorists could be tried as criminals in a public court.

What is tragic in this situation is how rediculous that statement is after the fact. First off, criminals are tried in public courts, thats obvious. Public courts are for public cases. This was different. This guy is a war criminal. He was involved in an act of war. He was an international suspect involved in an act of terrorism and has been proven so in a court of law. Why not try him in a military tribunal, what happened in this case that proved it otherwise? Why is this so surprising?

France and Germany have large populations of Islamic Fundamentalists and it is not a surprise to find that they don't have strict laws against this type of international problem. Their leniency towards a global infection that has already proven itself as being production line for international unrest and global mistrust, turmoil. Their history has proven it, and our reaction has continuously absolved them. 15 years is nothing compared to 3000 murders.