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Friday, April 18, 2003


Decapitate, legally
My friend Chibli Mallat, who has turned pursuing foreign heads of state for their war crimes into a high art, has just published the first of a two-part commentary in the Daily Star (Beirut).

He opens:

One of the many missing pieces in American strategy in Iraq is how to deal with the leaders of Iraq if and when they are caught. While “decapitation” is an integral part of the effort toward regime change, the policy is legally questionable in the absence of any indictment of those being targeted.

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