As I suspected, the so-called "Beatles" jihadis WILL be tried in the US(possibly later this year or sometime next year), and in a US federal court(NOT a military commission, as was used to try Mary Surratt and her alleged fellow conspirators in the 1865 assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, or the 1942 eight German saboteurs captured in the US- and also some German and Japanese war criminals after WWII;all the aforementioned were executed). Well that puts an end to silly chatter about them being tried here in the UK or at The Hague based International Criminal Court(Given the problematic relationship between successive US administrations and the ICC, it seemed unlikely that these two men would be turned over the Court; many of their victims were Americans and the US "unsigned" the Rome Statute of the ICC as far back as 2002. Anyay given their being stripped of their British citizenship, we can question whether the ICC has any jurisdiction over them). Anyway the Court should NOT be used as a dumping ground for cases Britain fears to prosecute.

Whilst it is true that the Central Criminal Court in London has tried many IRA terrorists during the "Troubles" in NI(beginning with the Old Bailey bombers), IS/Daesh is NOT the PIRA!

It is also true that during the "War On Terror" many jihadis have been tried and convicted by US courts but the upcoming trial of these "Beatles" will shine a spotlight on American justice as no other case has since the O.J.Simpson.

I should admit to a certain schadenfreude on this issue, let Americans who engaged smugly self righteous criticism of whatever Britain did during its fight against the IRA find themselves wrestling with the same philosophical matters we did during the "Troubles"!

Terry