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10 pages in length. Terrorists must be held to the same levels of accountability as all other people on this planet are mandated under international laws; for them to escape prosecution for such heinous crimes against humanity while other lesser criminals are put on trial is a catastrophic breach of conduct to which nations must adhere. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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against humanity while other lesser criminals are put on trial is a catastrophic breach of conduct to which nations must adhere. However, the arbitrary nature of international law precludes
the ability to prosecute terrorists. ...Where a terrorist, who has committed criminal acts in the territory or jurisdiction of a state, is found in any other state, the authorities
of the latter state are to be called on by the victim state to surrender or prosecute the terrorist in accordance with international law...If the state is unwilling, or unable,
to take these measures of international law enforcement, then the victim state may itself undertake the task of capturing the terrorist or destroying the terrorist base, as the case may
be (Shearer, 2005, p. 345). II. ENFORCING THE LAW - IF POSSIBLE International law was developed as a means by which nations
would become legally bound with regard to conduct; if effective sanctions had not been put into place in order to ensure such cooperation, warring countries would be left to their
own accord to determine their participation toward the obligatory law. Moreover, international law is instrumental in helping individual nations regulate their interrelated affairs; if and when this body of
rules is either ignored or blatantly disregarded, such disrespect for all other countries involved must be dealt with accordingly. This is the primary importance of effective sanctions, which serve
to control appropriate activity between and among all participating nations that abide by international law. Without such enforcement in place, it would be questionable as to the level of
appropriate behavior and steadfast faithfulness that would exist with warring nations. As Bass (2003) duly points out, "decisions about how to prosecute terrorists--whether in national or international courts--should be
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