NP a reasonable proposal

[Doug Millison]

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/13/justice/index.html

"[...] The image of American aircraft and missiles
bombing Arab states and producing massive casualties
-- many of them, inevitably, civilians with no ties to
terrorists -- will surely confirm the belief among
many ordinary Muslims that bin Laden is right: that
the United States is  intent on tormenting and
subduing the Islamic world. As Bruce Shapiro has
observed, out of the rubble of American attacks will
come thousands of new volunteers for bin Laden's
anti-American jihad. [...] It will not be possible to
put bin Laden's networks out of operation without the
cooperation of police and intelligence personnel all
over the globe -- including the Islamic world. The
best way to do this is to brand bin Laden and his
associates as mass murderers who are sought for trial
and punishment under U.S. law -- as has been done with
other suspected terrorists. Then, the United States
should order a massive global manhunt to capture bin
Laden and all of his associates, wherever they dwell.
It will be much harder for an Islamic government to
refuse our requests for assistance in tracking down
and arresting bin Laden's associates if we indict them
for multiple murders and portray this as a criminal
matter. The deliberate murder of innocents is a crime
and an abomination in all societies -- Islamic ones no
less than any others. 
Furthermore, to prevent the recruitment of additional
volunteers into bin Laden's networks (or others of
their type), we have to successfully portray him as an
enemy of authentic Islam. Bin Laden has succeeded in
recruiting followers up until now -- volunteers who
are willing to sacrifice their lives -- because he has
been able to portray himself as the true defender of
Islam. Now, we must seek out and ally ourselves with
the vast number of Muslims who are repelled and
horrified by the death of so many innocent people in
New York and Washington. We must encourage influential
Muslim clerics to condemn bin Laden as an enemy of
true Islamic belief. Only in this way can we silence
him (and his kind) forever. [...]"

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