Around 10:27pm on Friday, August 10, 2007 (UK time), James Kosin scrawled: > The US Armed forces is an exception. As such the armed forces fall > under U.S. jurisdictional law and not foreign law. Especially in > times of WAR; which we are currently in. > > Even when we occupy any foreign country, be it willingly or un-willingly. > > In some circumstances, the U.S. does have the right to waive those > laws... ie: if a soldier is caught selling drugs in some countries he > can be tried by the laws of that country. Yes but what I meant was that if a US serviceman took a Fedora laptop to Iraq, he would be breaking US laws (i.e. export controls) not that he would be breaking Iraqi laws. Steve -- Play Champions - my free football predictions game at: http://www.stevesearle.com/champs/about.html 22:39:16 up 5 days, 11:03, 2 users, load average: 0.02, 0.12, 0.18
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