Posted on 05/23/2012 10:41:54 PM PDT by South40
Amnesty International condemned the United States on Wednesday for the "unlawful" commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden in his lair in Pakistan.
"The US administration made clear that the operation had been conducted under the US's theory of a global armed conflict between the US and al-Qaeda in which the US does not recognise the applicability of international human rights law," the human rights group said in its annual report.
"In the absence of further clarification from the US authorities, the killing of Osama bin Laden would appear to have been unlawful," it said.
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If this becomes the official story Penatta will take the blame. The press releases are already written.
Was Osama’s raid on the twin tower and the pentagon legal?
How do the even know he’s dead? So far we have seen nada proof.
To make this right, they need to sneak up on that SEAL Team some night and scream, “Citizen’s arrest...citizen’s arrest!”
I got two words for you. SUCK IT! (cue up late 90's WWE gesture that goes with it)
Time to raid AI, maybe?
I wonder if they think that attack on New York was also illegal.
When I was in (middle and high) school I used to write letters for Amnesty International. We had a little club - I think I ran it, actually, at some point - and would just get the kids to write letters on all sorts of issues and send them to whomever.
Dear Mr. So and so, we demand that you free so-and-so, dear Ministers of the Republic of Veryverybad, please reconsider the death penalty, and so on. It was usually about the death penalty and international arms control.
Every once in awhile, Amnesty International’s aims match ours.
Thank goodness I was too dumb to make a difference when I was too dumb to know what kind of difference I should make.
I remember back as an undergrad there was an Amnesty International chapter on campus that dominated Student Senate when I actually got myself elected. Those people were the worst delusional knee jerk leftists you’ve ever seen. The lengths I had to go to to try and impose an iota of common sense in budgets and things was unreal.
“How do the even know he’s dead? So far we have seen nada proof.”
That reflects my own view as well. As far as we know he is alive and well. Though at the very least I think we captured him.
Think Seals should pay them a visit.....
Hadn’t Bush & Cheney been threatened with arrest too? Go ahead AI. Issue your warrent for bams.
I could see them building the gallows from the barred window in my cell. Suddenly, I was inexplicably released, given a fine seersucker suit from Brooks, a first class cabin to Marseilles, a fruit basket, and a perfectly chilled bottle of H.G. von Mumm, 1936.
Now, finally, I know the rest of the story!
Thank you, and thanks to the other youthful idealists in your obviously fine old school.
However, could you possibly inquire as to the whereabouts of my Dopp Kit?
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