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A Cowering United States Gives Terrorism a Free Ride

After 85 court sessions and nearly $90 million in legal costs, one Libyan underling has been found innocent of the destruction of Pan American Flight 103, and another insignificant underling, Abdel Basset Ali Megrahi, has been found guilty. The other thing that the trial proved was the utter futility of responding to terrorism with the ordinary procedures of criminal justice. Col. Moammar Kadafi, the Libyan ruler, could not even be interrogated, let alone arrested and convicted. Yet it is evident that if Megrahi did it, he was acting under orders as a mere agent of Kadafi, who controls everything in Libya but the weather. Full Story