HIST 3305 Lecture Notes - Mania, Via Rail, Jury Trial
24 Feb 2014
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This course is a re-broadcast from a few months ago things have changed. Terrorism continues to be a mixture of conundrum, a mystery to us all because we have long passed the events of the fabled 9/11. What we have now are more cirtical analyses of what terrorism is. It"s a metaphorical war because it"s not a geopolitical one. The cells have become more disparate, bin laden is no longer there. Cnn"s role in commentary on the boston marathon attack, saying these guys are nothing more than criminals, and they ought to be processed in the civilian courts. The omar khadr issue is frequently mentioned. Since the last course"s exam, he has announced that he will be appealing his conviction in the states, with a very good likelihood of being successful. The crimes he was alleged to have committed didn"t exist in law at the time that he pleaded to them.
