European Countries Cut Deal to Protect Afghan Peacekeepers

Washington Post ^ | June 20, 2002 | Colum Lynch

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The United States' leading European allies, who have opposed U.S. efforts to limit the powers of the new international war crimes tribunal, quietly obtained written assurances that their troops serving as peacekeepers in Afghanistan would be immune from arrest or surrender to the court.

News of the agreement put the United States and its allies sharply at odds today as the Bush administration formally introduced a draft Security Council resolution that would exclude personnel in all U.N. missions -- military and civilian -- from the reach of the new International Criminal Court (ICC).

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I always tend to believe incompetence is a more likely explanation for most oddities than conspiracy, but things like this make me wonder.

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