Should these two be tried for Treason?

[Bobbisox]

http://www.dailymail....anistan.html?ITO=1490


What makes people who are born into a free society such as ours, go and take up arms against us?
Surely they should be tried for treason as British Nationals fighting against their own country.

btw, this was on the News this morning and not a rant of the DM

[Bobbisox]

there are all sorts of possibilities I suppose Tiger

[mightyWBA]

I don't think they would consider themselves as British..They are more than likely more loyal to their religion.
In their eyes it is a religious war against a foreign invader.
We shouldn't be in Afghanistan, it's just a big waste of time and lives.

I think they should just be handed over to the Afghan authorities..They are just the enemy in a war and should be treated as such.
Allegedly.

[Bobbisox]

it brings me back to my OP WBA, if they are British Nationals and have been caught by the British serving there, then they would have to stand trial on British soil, wouldn't they?

[mightyWBA]

I don't really know Bobbi because they've been caught in a foreign country.
If they were allegedly plotting or killing fellow Britons here then fair enough.

[Bobbisox]

me neither WBA, maybe someone can verify/deny this?

[Bobbisox]

if we aren't, then why are we there?

[lcg]

the usa? that usually has something to do with it...

[Bobbisox]

at the invitation of Afghanistan which is a...country

[jackthehat]

The War in Afghanistan began on October 7, 2001,as the armed forces of the United States and the United Kingdom, and the Afghan United Front (Northern Alliance), launched Operation Enduring Freedom in response to the September 11 attacks on the United States, with the stated goal of dismantling the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization and ending its use of Afghanistan as a base. The United States also said that it would remove the Taliban regime from power and create a viable democratic state.- wiki

The original 'reason' and its aims.......

Since that time any 'British National' who has taken up arms against us, in that country, deserves to be tried for treason....unless they have made official steps to renounce their BN status.

[Bobbisox]

that's a compliment then Stevie, AOG is always courteous to me :o)
but then I show him respect too

[Bobbisox]

thanks for that jth, so if these two, are indeed found guilty then they should be stripped of British citizenship?

[Sqad]

trigger...you were clearly to young to remember, but around 1952, we were fighting the Mau Mau in Kenya, a particularly ruthless tribe of Kikuyu in Kenya.

The UK was not at war with Kenya, but by goodness, whatever definition youe would like to apply, we were at war with the Mau Mau.

[Sqad]

No idea Trig, but one could ask them after they had been tried for treason.

[emmie]

Sqad several Kenyans have been granted leave to bring a case again Britain for our part in that episode. I didn't get all the details before anyone moans, or ask for a link, it was on early news and was in a bit of a rush to go out.