Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Four Africans, a Nazi, and a Bosnian Serb
Foreign Policy lists the world's six "most wanted" war criminals. They are four Africans, a Nazi, and a Bosnian Serb. Incredibly, there is not a single jihadist in the group. Is that because Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri are not criminals, are not fighting a war, or have not inflicted sufficient damage on suitably helpless people? Or perhaps it is because Foreign Policy only wanted to list six criminals, "top six" lists being all the rage, and these two would have been seven and eight. What do you think explains the omission of al Qaeda's leadership?
Don't hold back.
8 Comments:
By 
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Thu Aug 14, 04:07:00 AM:
The usual political correctness.
By , at
Thu Aug 14, 07:33:00 AM:
Validate Clinton's 'war' in Bosnia, the usual suspects in Germany, and emphasis that we need that brown guy as president, who obviously must be more equipped to focus on where the real problems are: Africa.
To virtually ignore the war on terrorism, or the threat of nukes is astonishing.
By 
Dawnfire82, at
Thu Aug 14, 09:35:00 AM:
I noticed that they are all wanted by international 'law enforcement' entities. (except the Nazi, whose probably dead anyway)
By Andrewdb, at
Thu Aug 14, 12:18:00 PM:
The only thing missing from that headline is "walked into a bar..."
By , at
Thu Aug 14, 02:51:00 PM:
Why, because they are dead, of course. Bin Laden was entombed in Tora Bora in 2004 (no verifiably dated photo or video since then - strange, considering all the videos he made before Tora Bora). al-Zawahiri in Pakistan in the last month or two.
By , at
Thu Aug 14, 03:54:00 PM:
Nobody was trying to ignore anything, folks, I assure you. Bin Laden was merely too obvious. Though some people do believe the United States should go for an ICC indictment.
-Blake
By Dawnfire82, at
Thu Aug 14, 06:06:00 PM:
The US does not recognize the validity of the ICC.
Which, come to think of it, might explain the mentioned discrepancies...
By Assistant Village Idiot, at
Thu Aug 14, 10:06:00 PM:
The word "wanted" is the key. Some don't want them captured.
Actually, I think Dawnfire's got the right answer. It's a way of the ICC snubbing us for snubbing them.
