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Originally posted by Charlatan
This raises an interesting question (a moot one but interesting nonetheless): If they had been captured alive under whose law would they have been tried? Iraqi, US (is there a difference these days) or the World Court?
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Doesn't really matter. Previous experience (Nurenburg) has shown that they can be held indefinately *until* such matters are sorted out. I'd guess they'd have been tried using Iraqi laws (post-Saddam), or using a UN court, although that last option seems unlikely given the US/UN relationship.