More on why terrorism is not for the courts

This report that the German courts have thrown out the only criminal conviction in the world from the 9/11 attacks, on the grounds of insufficient evidence. Of course, the facts that have to be brought out in court often give heads ups to the terrorists, as they did during the trials of the first WTC bombers. The trial notified Bin Laden that we were tapping his satellite phone conversations, and he quit using that phone thereafter.