Irfan Yusuf is a lawyer, award-winning author, commentator and humorist. His comic memoir "Once Were Radicals: My Years As A Teenage Islamo-fascist" was published in May 2009. He currently lives in Sydney where he is completing his doctorate.
What happens when lawyers, as part of their professional "duties", manufacture the legal mechanisms allowing governments to commit acts of terror, mass-murder and genocide? Perhaps the judgment on a group of German government lawyers may provide some clues.