To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
In the early 1960's, Israel was one of the first states to invoke the principle of universal jurisdiction in its groundbreaking trial against Adolf Eichmann, the "architect of the Holocaust".
In the post-WWII years, British intelligence hunted down and killed a number of former Nazis who were involved in various wartime projects not deemed worthy of war crimes prosecution.
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01/24/2010 7:09:19 AM PST by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
In the post-WWII years, British intelligence hunted down and killed a number of former Nazis who were involved in various wartime projects not deemed worthy of war crimes prosecution.
Yes, I believe it was cynically referred to as "rendering the individual into Her Majesty's permanent custody".
It is also the foundation for James Bond's "License to Kill"
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01/24/2010 9:09:24 AM PST by
Copernicus
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