Quote Originally Posted by OhOh
The western idea of civilised behaviour is to subject all accused persons, nobody is above the law, to "Trial by Jury" in a public court.
Not in a situation where the suspect is armed and shooting at security forces with no apparent intention of giving himself up when trapped. These guys are on self-engineered suicide missions as they well know.

Quote Originally Posted by OhOh
Your post suggested, to me, that "intelligence" must form the key to actions. My reply suggested that FACTS are the key to correct decisions not "sexed up" reports/intelligence......... Subsequently shown to be totally false.
We were talking about the US unwillingness to share its intelligence with some muslim nations fighting IS. I was saying there are reasons not to share intelligence. What has that got to do with your poorly formulated attempt to distinguish between 'FACTS' and 'intelligence'? The digression is neither logical nor relevant.