IR 407 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Corfu Channel Case, Sucker Punch, Incitement To Ethnic Or Racial Hatred
17 Dec 2017
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Is terrorism a security threat or a criminal problem: one kills enemies in war, one arrests, tries and imprisons criminals. Anti-crime tools are often more useful in fighting it than military, kinetic options: almost exclusively local tools used as anti-crime tools by local authorities, kinetic solution means to kill (wet solutions) (this is both literal and figurative) Many terrorists or terrorist cells use crime for self finance. Terrorists want you dead: terrorists are not concerned with profit past what is necessary to fund their desire activity. Criminals don"t threaten genocide, wmd or global apocalypse: given the opportunity, terrorists would commit genocide. Umar farouk abdulmutallab (you have to know his name, fam) Convicted for attempting to murder 289 and possession of a wmd: obama administration treated most subsequent terrorists as security threats, which puts them under international law, which is easier to prove guilt than in the american system.
