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U.S. soldiers charged with murder of journalist (Spanish court)
CNN ^ | 10/19/05 | Al Goodman

Posted on 10/19/2005 6:04:54 PM PDT by minus_273

MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- A Spanish judge issued an international arrest warrant Wednesday for three U.S. soldiers, charging them with murder in the death of Spanish TV cameraman Jose Couso in Baghdad, Iraq.

Couso, who worked for Spain's Telecinco network, died at the Palestine Hotel on April 8, 2003, as U.S. forces advanced to take control of the city in April 2003.

Investigating magistrate Santiago Pedraz of the National Court will seek the extradition of the soldiers to Spain, a court spokeswoman told CNN.

They are wanted for "murder" and "a crime against the international community," according to the warrant, a copy of which was viewed by CNN partner network CNN+.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: baghdad; icc; iraq; journalist; liberal; palestinehotel; spain; wot
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and you wonder why we dont join the ICC
1 posted on 10/19/2005 6:04:58 PM PDT by minus_273
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To: minus_273
Send a few of our Seals over to grab this Spanish judge and stick him in Gitmo until the war on terror is over.
2 posted on 10/19/2005 6:10:01 PM PDT by Ninian Dryhope
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To: minus_273

bwahahahahaha.... friggin commies


3 posted on 10/19/2005 6:10:35 PM PDT by fhlh (Polls are for strippers and liberal spin.)
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To: minus_273
USA to Spanish Court: "You want them? Come and get them!"

Oh, by the way: You better bring LOTS of help!

4 posted on 10/19/2005 6:11:25 PM PDT by Dubh_Ghlase ("Every man dies, but not every man truly lives...." Braveheart)
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To: minus_273

Tell Spain to take of their 23% unemployement and shut the hell up. Man I desoise Euroweenies.


5 posted on 10/19/2005 6:12:58 PM PDT by Archon of the East ("universal executive power of the law of nature")
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To: minus_273

Tell Spain to take care of their 23% unemployement and shut the hell up. Man I desoise Euroweenies.


6 posted on 10/19/2005 6:13:22 PM PDT by Archon of the East ("universal executive power of the law of nature")
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To: minus_273

Me, I'm not a "nice guy",..I don't give a rat's you know what if all the "journalists" in Iraq and other places, drop dead or get killed tomorrow.

I don't believe any of them. I think they're pretty much all commie, America hating lefties anyway.


7 posted on 10/19/2005 6:15:37 PM PDT by garyhope
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And then 100 million American patriots looked around for a Spanish product to boycott - but found none.
8 posted on 10/19/2005 6:17:33 PM PDT by JasonC
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To: minus_273

They might have more leverage if they hadn't already fled from Iraq.


9 posted on 10/19/2005 6:19:53 PM PDT by Sofa King (MY rights are not subject to YOUR approval.)
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To: minus_273

I think the soldiers should have shot the building a few more times. The journalists are lucky the troops are honorable men.


10 posted on 10/19/2005 6:20:00 PM PDT by Ma3lst0rm
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To: minus_273

Come and get us.
11 posted on 10/19/2005 6:20:05 PM PDT by keithtoo (Vast Right Wing Conspiracy - Founding Member)
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Well, if the soldiers stay in Iraq, the Spainioweenies can't get him for sure.


12 posted on 10/19/2005 6:27:10 PM PDT by 308MBR (Walnut stocks with steel buttplates are pretty effective in close quarters.)
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>And then 100 million American patriots looked around for a Spanish product to boycott - but found none.<

Antonio Banderas...


13 posted on 10/19/2005 6:31:57 PM PDT by citizencon
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To: minus_273

"Seeing that they have tried me in absentia, and convicted me in absentia, let them execute me in absentia."

-- Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary, 1919


14 posted on 10/19/2005 6:33:19 PM PDT by Appalled but Not Surprised
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To: keithtoo

Of course, I seem to recall the last time we mixed it up with the Spanish, we kicked their asses.....


15 posted on 10/19/2005 6:34:13 PM PDT by Appalled but Not Surprised
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To: minus_273

Now, who would have thought that Americans, and especially the military, would be the targets of the ICC.


16 posted on 10/19/2005 6:36:17 PM PDT by mcar
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"A Spanish judge issued an international arrest warrant Wednesday for two U.S. soldiers...."

Hey judge, take that warrant and shove it where the sun don't shine.


17 posted on 10/19/2005 6:39:10 PM PDT by Arpege92 ("I am happy, be it yourselves." - Pope John Paul II)
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To: minus_273

Any idiot can issue an arrest warrent. Who will enforce it with a nation of gun owners? I'll defnd our guys with my private arsenal and out of my group of friends, I have only a "few" weapons.


18 posted on 10/19/2005 6:46:37 PM PDT by caisson71
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"I think they're pretty much all commie, America hating lefties anyway"

Yeah, why not? All our journalists are.


19 posted on 10/19/2005 6:56:03 PM PDT by JSteff
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To: minus_273
Remember the Maine!
20 posted on 10/19/2005 7:10:02 PM PDT by Ukiapah Heep (Shoes for Industry!)
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