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US files first-ever war crime charges accusing Russian soldiers of torturing American in Ukraine
NY Post ^ | Dec. 6, 2023 | Snejana Farberov

Posted on 12/06/2023 2:09:48 PM PST by McGruff

The US Justice Department took the unprecedented step of charging four Russian soldiers with war crimes against an American living in Ukraine, who was allegedly savagely beaten, tortured and subjected to a mock execution.

Attorney General Merrick Garland said Wednesday these were the first charges brought under a little-known 1996 federal law that allows the US to prosecute people who commit war crimes against Americans abroad.

“As the world has witnessed the horrors of Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, so has the United States Department of Justice,” Garland told a news conference.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; Ukraine
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1 posted on 12/06/2023 2:09:48 PM PST by McGruff
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To: McGruff

And 12,000 illegals flooded into America yesterday. Palestinian terrorists have stopped Christmas Tree ceremonies in several towns, and the Presidents of MIT, Harvard and Penn are unsure whether calling for genocide is bullying.

And this is what the FBI and DOJ are focusing on.


2 posted on 12/06/2023 2:14:16 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up.)
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To: McGruff

The collective in Washington DC sits around all day inventing nothing to talk about a lot via their media pukes.


3 posted on 12/06/2023 2:15:49 PM PST by isthisnickcool (1218 - NEVER FORGET!)
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To: McGruff

I’m increasing my prayers for Gonzalo Lira, that he is still alive in Ukraine, and that the US State Department is still trying to help him.


4 posted on 12/06/2023 2:17:34 PM PST by cabojoe ( 🇺🇸 Stop Ukie censorship. Release Gonzalo Lira)
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To: McGruff

Well now there’s precedent, the DOJ can charge the Ukrainian SBU with holding blogger Gonzalo Lira…right?

https://www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/current/gonzalo_lira_hungary_us_state_dept_confirms_in_ukrainian_prison_breitbart/


5 posted on 12/06/2023 2:18:32 PM PST by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: McGruff

But. Never. Hamas. Oh No! freaking Garland— what a real queer feller.


6 posted on 12/06/2023 2:19:54 PM PST by John S Mosby (.Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: everyone

Who’s going to serve the arrest warrant, the FBI? I hope CNN televises the raid on the Kremlin.


7 posted on 12/06/2023 2:21:43 PM PST by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: cabojoe

He is a US citizen too. The regime could get him back.
This war crime thingee is to try and get sympathy to goad Congress into giving Zelensky another 60 billion.

This is going nowhere by the way.


8 posted on 12/06/2023 2:30:04 PM PST by dforest
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To: cabojoe

I’m glad the prisoner in the story was released and is alive!

May he live long enough to relieve the pain of remembering.


9 posted on 12/06/2023 2:32:06 PM PST by gloryblaze
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To: DesertRhino

Great point. Where are the War Crime complaints on Hamas who shot women in their groins and cout their breaststroke off before they killed them? Oh, excuse me, they were Jewish, so the State and DOJ don’t give a damn.


10 posted on 12/06/2023 2:32:35 PM PST by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: McGruff

Garland is such a tool. This obviously a ploy to get America aroused enough to back more Ukraine spending. I don’t think so. Tell Zelensky to round up all the money they’ve stolen from us first.


11 posted on 12/06/2023 2:34:00 PM PST by DeplorablePaul
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To: DesertRhino

Well put.


12 posted on 12/06/2023 2:44:18 PM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: McGruff

And when against Palestinian Islamic HAMAS?


13 posted on 12/06/2023 2:45:04 PM PST by Reno89519 (It's war. No one murders and takes Americans hostage. Time to act. Declare war on Islamic Hamas.)
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To: McGruff

Who cares? There is literally no such thing as a war crime. War itself is a crime called murder sanctioned by government. What is worse than murder?


14 posted on 12/06/2023 2:49:25 PM PST by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: DesertRhino
And this is what the FBI and DOJ are focusing on.

And don't forget that Fed.gov will likely face a $3 Trillion deficit next year, up from $2 Trillion now.

Biden is a completely demented figurehead, DC is under control by deep-state factions and ideologues, and government is suffering complete paralysis. They will create debt until the country collapses.

15 posted on 12/06/2023 2:49:55 PM PST by PGR88
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To: McGruff

And not Hamas/”Palestine”, for raping, torturing,kidnapping starving, and killing Israeli and American civilians?


16 posted on 12/06/2023 3:02:21 PM PST by nopardons
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To: McGruff

Putin must be shaking in his boots!


17 posted on 12/06/2023 3:07:25 PM PST by parmamenian (and so it goes!)
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To: McGruff

This is just more of that silly-assed and childish Democrat posturing over substance.


18 posted on 12/06/2023 3:19:44 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: silverleaf

Thanks silverleaf.


19 posted on 12/06/2023 3:47:18 PM PST by cabojoe ( 🇺🇸 Stop Ukie censorship. Release Gonzalo Lira)
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To: McGruff
The defendants are not in custody and are unlikely to appear in the US to face the charges.

Oh, OK. What’s the point, then?

20 posted on 12/06/2023 3:52:18 PM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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