New York Terrorist Plot a Test for Domestic Counterterrorism Strategy
Liubomir Topaloff on May 29, 2009 in US Foreign Policy Commentaries No Comments »
The recently released by FBI information about the arrests of four suspects who allegedly planned to blow up a few synagogues in NYC and shoot down military planes with a ground-to-air Stinger missile system will now become, perhaps, the greatest test for the argument that counterterrorism could be conducted successfully via the traditional court systems, without extrajudicial methods, such as Guantanamo or similar renditions.
The targets of the alleged terrorists, courtesy of BBC
To examine this I look into the particulars of each approach.
