Posted on 10/27/2009 7:53:42 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
UNITED NATIONS – A U.N. human rights investigator warned the United States Tuesday that its use of unmanned warplanes to carry out targeted executions may violate international law.
Philip Alston said that unless the Obama administration explains the legal basis for targeting particular individuals and the measures it is taking to comply with international humanitarian law which prohibits arbitrary executions, "it will increasingly be perceived as carrying out indiscriminate killings in violation of international law."
Alston, the U.N. Human Rights Council's investigator on extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary executions, raised the issue of U.S. Predator drones in a report to the General Assembly's human rights committee and at a news conference afterwards, saying he has become increasingly concerned at the dramatic increase in their use, especially in Afghanistan and Pakistan, since June.
He said the U.S. response — that the Geneva-based council and the General Assembly have no role in relation to killings during an armed conflict — "is simply untenable."
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Fine. We'll deliberately aim wide of the target by a few feet. It's not our fault if the muzzie runs inside the warheads splash radius...
Frigging morons at the UN need to be on the receiving end of a few hellfire missiles... after a MOAB or twenty is dropped on that hive of scum and villainy.
I'd dearly love to see that whole place turned into a smoking hole in the ground with it entire load of filth inside at the time.
My, my, we’re being told all kinds of things by the UN, aren’t we.
This conjures up the image of a 17 year old kid complete with lollipop hanging out the side of his mouth being summoned to appear before a UN High crimes tribunal.
Bad Dream! Say it isn't so.
As if Obama needed their help. Amateurs.
9/10/09
“U.N. LAWYERS TARGET U.S. TROOPS”
“Justice: As if fighting a war in Afghanistan isn’t hard enough, ambitious global prosecutors have rolled into Kabul looking to charge U.S. troops. Intentional or not, such legalism will sap U.S. morale as it did in Vietnam.
At about the time NATO’s new secretary-general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, warned NATO’s European members against an early pullout, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the top prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, whose body is charged with looking for international war criminals, announced he was looking for new “clients” from anyone with a grievance in Afghanistan.
At a briefing Wednesday in The Hague, Moreno-Ocampo said he had launched a new war crimes inquiry..,
Oh, he’d been evenhanded in his Monday-morning battlefield quarterbacking of course, promising he’d prosecute both Taliban and NATO troops as moral equals...”
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=505775
9/08/09
“Obama to seal US-UN relationship”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2334897/posts
Hasta La Vista, I’ll be back, Bonzai!
Hey Phil! Who enforces YOUR “international law”? Your sissy boys in the baby blue helmets? ROTFLMAO!!! Take a hike!
What is the ripple interval on that
I would think that, Philip Alston , should now be placed near the top on the current strike list.
Semper Fi
So is Obama going to agree and subject our military to the International Court or some other foreign Romper room court?
Would not surprise me if he did.
Once they've received it, that is.
Or the committee could very cordially be invited by the U.N. to take the prize and shove it up their politically correct (North end of a Southbound Donkey).
Cheers!
What is the ripple interval on that
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DamnifIknow,,,
Arc-Light~Arc-Brite...;0)
Hmmmmm
"Drone" 3."a parasitic loafer"
(Random House Webster's Dictionary)
Then, once Palin's elected...we tell the U.N. we were wrong and tell them to go piss up a rope.
Schadenfreude payback is a beyotch! /sarc>
Remember, Yasser Arafat was linked to the massacre of Israeli Olympic athletes in '72...and later got awarded the Peace Prize.
Obama is following the same path, eh? /sarc>
Cheers!
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