Posted on 01/03/2020 6:03:19 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Agnes Callamard, the U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial killing, said on Thursday night that the U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian terrorist mastermind Gen. Qasem Soleimani was a violation of international law.
The U.N. has been oddly quiet about Soleimani’s violations of international law, including activities that indisputably violated U.N. sanctions.
“The targeted killings of Qasem Soleiman and Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis are most likely unlawful and violate international human rights law: Outside the context of active hostilities, the use of drones or other means for targeted killing is almost never likely to be legal,” Callamard wrote on Twitter.
She proceeded to lay out an impossibly stringent standard for preventive action that becomes grotesquely amusing when measured against Soleimani’s malign activities, not least his involvement in an undisputed act of war against the United States, the attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad last week:
To be justified under international human rights law, intentionally lethal or potentially lethal force can only be used where strictly necessary to protect against an imminent threat to life.
In other words, whoever targeted these two men would need to demonstrate that the persons targeted constitute(d) an imminent threat to others. An individual’s past involvement in “terrorist” attacks is not sufficient to make his targeting for killing lawful.
Furthermore, drone killing of anyone other than the target (family members or others in the vicinity, for example) would be an arbitrary deprivation of life under human rights law and could result in State responsibility and individual criminal liability.
The use of drones on the territory of other States has also been justified on the basis of self-defense. Under customary international law States can take military action if the threatened attack is imminent, no other means would deflect it, and the action is proportionate.
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bummer...pay your NY parking tickets.
Leave America?
Get the U.S. out of the U.N. Nothing but a terrorist and Communist protection racket.
efff da ewe end
The UN can go pound sand where the sun don’t shine...maybe Quatar. They need to get their anti-American azzes out of the United States.
I don’t remember them condemning the killing of Kaddafy (Quaddafy, Qaddafy, whatever)
lol
He’s right.
The only option the UN has, as I see, is to put together a formidable coalition army and attack us.
Of course, that means we can use every means at our disposal in fighting back.
Like erasing the UN building in NYC that I loathed so much and hated driving by.
The way to tell how corrupt an organization is by how much democrats like it
Gee Agnes, where were you when Obama was droning hither and yon?
Tell you what, if you’re really pissed, have the UN declare war on the US.
Get this stupid frog out of our country.
Organizing an attack on an embassy has always been considered an act of war. The attackers of our Iraqi embassy clearly stated who their leader was.
Far as I’m concerned, that’s enough.
You know, that building they use would make one helluva super Walmart.
Nothing but golf claps for little bammy.
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Someone please remind me of all the times the U.N. condemned Soleimani for all the people he killed outside international law.
The UN can collectively smooch a baboon’s arse.
Precisely
Let Trump turn the UN building into a big, beautiful homeless shelter.
At least it’d house a better class of grifters and vagrants that way
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If Trump could kick the UN out of the US, that would be great. Let Tehran host the SOBs.
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