After the death of Osama bin Laden on one thing, in Brussels, I agree in many: the risk of terrorist attacks has increased. The sigh of relief, pulled by the Presidents of Commission, Council and Parliament is not shared by those who would prefer to see bin Laden tried by the International Criminal Court The Hague (International Criminal Court - ICC).
"I liked the statements with which the European Union representatives have welcomed the killing of bin Laden," said Heidi Hautala, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Human Rights to the European Parliament. "The EU should know that bin Laden is more useful to extremists dead than alive." The risk, according to Hautala, is that the former head of Al Qaeda to become a martyr in the name of that other terrorists could arrange attacks in the West.
"It would be much better to deliver it live to justice. The place of Osama should have been in The Hague, before the court, after considering the many key information in the fight against terrorism, which certainly possessed. " But the high court in The Hague remains a taboo subject for the United States, one of the few Western countries not to join.
To have acceded to the Rome Statute, the legal basis of the ICC, there are far 114 countries, including Burundi and Uganda. Among the major addition to the United States, remain outside Israel, Russia and China. "Now the United States should finally make the important step of joining the ICC," adds Hautala, "and substantially revise their policy of detention and close once and for all the Guantánamo prison, which violates international law ".
In this direction is working hard Ana Gomes, the Portuguese Socialist MEP and member of the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee. "I am personally in contact with U.S. diplomats to facilitate their entry in the CCI", tells the Gomes, but the road seems all uphill, "having regard to the opposition of certain influential circles of the U.S.
Army." Even for Gomes, a former diplomat in the Middle East during the Portuguese Presidency of the EU in 1992, "the killing of Osama was a serious mistake. Bin Laden was already politically dead because he was no longer at the top of Al Qaeda. Now the risk is to become a martyr for extremists around the world.
" And the losers will be ordinary citizens, given that the "attacks mainly targeting soft targets, like hotels and transport." For this reason, according to Gomes, "was not quite done justice." But "right" all agree: the death of bin Laden's good news. Arnaud Danjean, French President of the Parliamentary Subcommittee on Security said he was "pleased and relieved" to the EU Council Presidency Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission President José Manuel Barroso is "an important success in the fight against terrorism," while for President of the European Parliament Jersey Buzek, "we woke up in a safer world." Meanwhile, all European countries have increased security measures. 
"I liked the statements with which the European Union representatives have welcomed the killing of bin Laden," said Heidi Hautala, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Human Rights to the European Parliament. "The EU should know that bin Laden is more useful to extremists dead than alive." The risk, according to Hautala, is that the former head of Al Qaeda to become a martyr in the name of that other terrorists could arrange attacks in the West.
"It would be much better to deliver it live to justice. The place of Osama should have been in The Hague, before the court, after considering the many key information in the fight against terrorism, which certainly possessed. " But the high court in The Hague remains a taboo subject for the United States, one of the few Western countries not to join.
To have acceded to the Rome Statute, the legal basis of the ICC, there are far 114 countries, including Burundi and Uganda. Among the major addition to the United States, remain outside Israel, Russia and China. "Now the United States should finally make the important step of joining the ICC," adds Hautala, "and substantially revise their policy of detention and close once and for all the Guantánamo prison, which violates international law ".
In this direction is working hard Ana Gomes, the Portuguese Socialist MEP and member of the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee. "I am personally in contact with U.S. diplomats to facilitate their entry in the CCI", tells the Gomes, but the road seems all uphill, "having regard to the opposition of certain influential circles of the U.S.
Army." Even for Gomes, a former diplomat in the Middle East during the Portuguese Presidency of the EU in 1992, "the killing of Osama was a serious mistake. Bin Laden was already politically dead because he was no longer at the top of Al Qaeda. Now the risk is to become a martyr for extremists around the world.
" And the losers will be ordinary citizens, given that the "attacks mainly targeting soft targets, like hotels and transport." For this reason, according to Gomes, "was not quite done justice." But "right" all agree: the death of bin Laden's good news. Arnaud Danjean, French President of the Parliamentary Subcommittee on Security said he was "pleased and relieved" to the EU Council Presidency Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission President José Manuel Barroso is "an important success in the fight against terrorism," while for President of the European Parliament Jersey Buzek, "we woke up in a safer world." Meanwhile, all European countries have increased security measures.
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