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Criminals have rights because criminals are still people.

Terrorists are the 20th and 21st century equivalent of pirates.

Terrorist are people too. But let's not go down that road,

The problem (one of them at least) is that they're not only killing pirates, but people who they think might be pirates.

Or people who happen to be in the same cafe as people who they think might be pirates.

Incredibly apt analogy, even down to the privateers part - Americans were perfectly happy to fund terrorists in Northern Ireland.