Blair Government police investigation for war crimes

Scotland Yard to investigate Tony Blair and ex-Attorney General Peter Goldsmith for war crimes
Press Conference,Room C, 1 Parliament Street
Tuesday 15th January 2008 3pm
John McDonnell MP, Chris Coverdale: International War Law Expert and Annie Machon of the Campaign to Make War History brief MPs and the media on allegations of war crimes committed against the people of Iraq by Britain's former Prime Minister and former Attorney General.
Officers from Scotland Yard have commenced a criminal investigation into the deaths of Iraqi citizens killed during the armed invasion and occupation of Iraq. The Metropolitan Police are acting in response to crimes reported by peace activists from We Are Change UK and The Campaign to Make War History.
In an unprecedented step, the case was handed to the War Crimes division of the Counter Terrorism branch who are now investigating allegations of 14 criminal offences committed by Tony Blair, Lord Goldsmith and others.
The offences are under the International Criminal Court Act 2001, which came into effect under English common law, just two days before 9/11.
Two Members of We Are Change UK and a representative from the Campaign to Make War History were interviewed for six hours at Belgravia Police station on the 20th December 2007.
Evidence was provided to the police relating to the crimes of:-
• genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and conduct ancillary to these crimes under Sections 51 and 52 of The International Criminal Court Act 2001.
• a crime against peace and complicity in a crime against peace under Articles 6 and 7 of The Nuremburg Principles.• murder, incitement to murder and conspiracy to murder under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861.
• conspiracy to commit genocide, a crime against humanity and war crimes under the Criminal Law Act 1977._____
'Blair Government police investigation for war crimes' PT1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiNI5SbIsyg
'Blair Government police investigation for war crimes' PT2http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDsUxph5nBk
'Blair Government police investigation for war crimes' PT3http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORRVu2KYXUg
'Blair Government police investigation for war crimes' PT4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPx9QsXqXBI

Thanks to Saboma for this one!

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Rumsfeld - War Criminal Charges Filed

I discovered today that Nazi War Criminal Donald {von Weichs} Rumsfeld had a complaint filed against him in France for his role in instituting Torture at Guantanamo Bay Cuba, Abu Ghraib and many other Military Prisons in Iraq.

Read More at America Weeps (and many more interesting reads).

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When will it end?

Military Strikes Insurgents’ Positions East of Baghdad

This is not a "War on Terror." It is a crime agains humanity in my view of it!

The United States does not have the right, wisdom or power to invade and occupy another country, still less an ancient civilization, with the ultimate purpose of redirecting that nation and its civilization. Such a mission will never result in any kind of victory, only the morally toxic political and humanitarian catastrophes we are witnessing and, if allowed to continue, crimes not soon forgotten or forgiven. (Stephen F. Cohen)

Now we have 10,000 Troops going on the offensive and nothing will change because of that except more people will die and be wounded. The "Terrorists" will simply move their camps to another location.

This is a War that will never end as long as we continue to stay where we are not wanted.

It is said America must "stay the course" because it has a "moral obligation" to the Iraqi people. But given the horrors unleashed on those people since the US invasion, the only moral course is withdrawal, along with a pledge to help fund the country's reconstruction--a promise still unfulfilled despite $30 billion to $45 billion purportedly spent--if Iraq at last has an effective and peaceful government.
It is true that an upsurge of violence may occur when the United States departs, but that will be so whether the departure is sooner or later, the essential difference being that many more people--Americans and Iraqis--will die in the interim.
In reality, widespread killing in Iraq will never end until the US-led occupation ends and one side or the other in the civil war, deprived of foreign occupiers to provide resources or incite more enemies, finally prevails or both settle for a compromise. The Iraqi people seem to agree. In surveys taken last year, large majorities favored an immediate US withdrawal; and nearly 80 percent believed it would reduce the violence in their country. (Stephen F. Cohen)

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The Barbaric Lynching of President Saddam Hussein

Press Statement
by Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad
Global Research, January 1, 2007

On the Holy day of Eid, the world watched in horror at the barbaric lynching of President Saddam Hussein of Iraq, allegedly for crimes against humanity. This public murder was sanctioned by the War Criminals, President Bush and Prime Minister Blair.
This sadistic act broadcasted to the whole world is a travesty of justice, and was meant to demonstrate the imperial power of the United States and serves as a warning to peace loving peoples that we must either bow to the dictates of the Bush regime or face the consequences of a public lynching.
The lynching was also an insult to all Muslims, as it occurred on the Holy Day of Eid, whereby Muslims devote themselves to prayer and forgiveness. It is all too clear that the war criminal Bush has no sensitivities whatsoever for Muslims on their pilgrimage to Mecca. This barbaric act is a sacrilege!

If we support human rights and justice, we must condemn this barbaric lynching of President Saddam Hussein. There can be no excuse whatsoever for this injustice under any circumstances. War Criminal Bush and the puppet regime in Iraq have made a mockery of the Rule of Law.

Do you think the Execution Date was planned? Nothing like adding fuel to the fire. Now when the Iraq's get really pissed we can say "see" that's why we are there!

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Prosecute Rumsfeld? Not Ridiculous

Prosecute Rumsfeld? Not Ridiculous
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith

Those seeking to bring war crimes charges against Donald Rumsfeld and other top US officials in a German court can no longer be ignored--indeed, the legal action now unfolding in Germany has received extensive coverage not only in The Nation but also in mainstream media.

Rather than being a farfetched idea from the American left, the principle of universal jurisdiction under which Rumsfeld and his potential co-defendants would be charged is enshrined in Article 49 of the First Geneva Convention: "Each High Contracting Party shall be under the obligation to search for persons alleged to have committed, or to have ordered to be committed, such grave breaches [of the Geneva Convention,] and shall bring such persons, regardless of their nationality, before its own courts."

The statute that establishes the International Criminal Court, which has been ratified by 104 states and signed by thirty-five more--notes that every state has the duty to exercise its criminal jurisdiction over those responsible for international crimes.

The United Nations Convention Against Torture (as summarized by international law authority Peter Weiss) obliges every signatory of the convention to detain a suspected torturer; investigate the alleged torture, no matter where committed; notify other states having certain contact points with the suspect; and, depending on the results of the preliminary investigation, proceed to prosecute the suspect in its own courts if it decides against extradition. The United States is a party to the convention.

Toobin's CNN colloquy with John King focused on whether the case was "ridiculous," thereby eliminating the need even to ask whether or not Rumsfeld might be culpable. After the ridicule dissolves in the face of the serious questions raised by this case, don't be surprised to see massive resistance from the Bush Administration and its supporters to efforts to restore the rule of law. Meanwhile, Rumsfeld and his potential co-defendants might want to look for a defense attorney who doesn't consider their legal vulnerability such a laughing matter.

We sure will be keeping an eye on this! Let's see who has the last laugh...shall we?

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2006: A Year of Living Dangerously

2006: A Year of Living Dangerously

Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith
The year 2006 will be remembered as one in which the American people and the world rose up to challenge the criminal actions and deceit of the Bush Administration.
Despite massive evidence that top Administration officials have been complicit in systematic violations of national and international law through aggressive war, illegal occupation, rendition and detention of terror suspects without trial, secret prisons and torture, so far they have not been held accountable.

Now a diverse array of forces is contesting Bush Administration impunity for war crimes and trying to reassert the rule of law over the executive branch. Each is operating in different arenas and pursuing different kinds of accountability--from public shaming and political disempowerment to international isolation and even criminal prosecution. While all of these initiatives have been reported in the press, their convergence is one of the great underreported stories of 2006.

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