preview

Abu Bin Al Baghdadi Pros And Cons

Decent Essays

Recommendation to the President I recommend that Abu bin Al-Baghdadi should be tried at a federal court in the U.S. Military commissions which were set by the administration of George W. Bush have been criticized for lacking accountability and fair trial processes to detainees at Guantanamo Bay. A lot of people tend to think that indefinite detention at the facility is fair enough due to legal, political, and economic constraints that prevent transfer of detainees at the military facility to face justice in the U.S. One fundamental factor in detaining the likes of Al-Baghdadi at the prison is because they are suspects of war crimes and terrorism which led to the deaths of many innocent civilians and America’s service men and women. Families …show more content…

The international condemnation of the U.S. because of her treatment of the Guantanamo Bay detainees is a challenge that America must rise to encounter be ensuring fairness and respect to the rule of law that the U.S. has defended since the nation was founded. When Al-Baghdadi is held indefinitely at the prison facility, it becomes quite certain that America shall have deemed him guilty of his alleged criminal activities. However, full impact of the rule of law requires persons like Al-Baghdadi to either be convicted or acquitted based on the principles of fair trial as the law requires. On the hand, his continual stay at the prison could subject him to possible inhumane treatment at the hands of military personnel who are manning the facility. As at present, the military commission which tries the detainees at Guantanamo Bay operates in isolation from the regulations on trial procedures which are expected of the civil courts within the U.S. For example, judicial review and/or chances of appealing decisions of the military commissions are technically nonexistent. These are plausible reasons which make Al-Baghdadi’s transfer into the U.S. for …show more content…

Following his conviction by a jury in New York, Preet Bharara, the Southern District attorney in the State lauded the trial as a sure indicator that civil courts have the capacity to try terror suspects. Mostafa was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment (Inside Story team). The conviction of the terror suspect in the U.S. was an indicator that possible loopholes in law that inform critics’ opinions against trial of foreigners in the U.S. are not plausible enough. A new policy framework should also include conditions under which foreign nationals who are detained at the military facility in Guantanamo Bay could be tried in the U.S. One condition would include grounds that their trials in the U.S. is warranted by ongoing wars and possibility of sectarian war outbreaks in any case high profile terror suspects are repatriated to their native

Get Access