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Source: http://tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021111&s=maass111102
Dirty War: How America's Friends Really Fight Terrorism
(New Republic) Peter Maass - Due process is a rarity in most Muslim nations; police and courts are rotten with ineptness, corruption, torture, and meddling by political and religious authorities. When the White House urges a crackdown, it knows that terrorism suspects are far more likely to face summary executions than fair trials. Under President Hosni Mubarak, Egypt is a brutocracy in which Islamic fundamentalists have in recent years been snuffed out in ways so unkind that even the State Department feels obliged, in its annual human rights reports, to criticize it. For the foreseeable future the war on terror in foreign lands will be waged by the faulty criminal justice systems that exist.