Posted on 07/16/2008 11:13:29 AM PDT by tobyhill
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia misused the symbol of the Red Cross in this month's military rescue of politician Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other guerrilla-held hostages, the government said on Wednesday, admitting a possible violation of the rules of war.
"We regret that this occurred," President Alvaro Uribe said in a speech following reports that the Red Cross emblem was displayed on a vest or T-shirt worn by a Colombian intelligence officer who took part in the rescue mission.
Falsely portraying military personnel as Red Cross members is against the Geneva Conventions as it could put humanitarian workers at risk when they are in war zones.
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FARC is a signatory to the Geneva Convention? I think not.
The Pals used the Red Cross on their ambulances to transport arms...
Words fail me this time.
Get a load of Reuters editorializing article policy.
***But the use of the Red Cross symbol takes some of the shine off the rescue.***
Neither is Al Qaeda. Yet somehow, their terrorists are entitled to the protection of the Geneva Convention, according to Anthony Kennedy.
FARC would like to be a signatory of the G-C....but no one invited them. Course...our friendly faker crowd in Colombia might get wise, and create a fake invitation to come over to Miami and sign the treaty there. Send the invite on a piece of Red Cross letterhead and have Bill Clinton’s signature at the bottom.
Terrorist groups only honor the Red Cross when it suits their convenience. No Red Cross worker is ever safe from FARC or any other group of terrorists.
My inside source has revealed that the fake Red-Cross worker had his fingers crossed, and so was not, repeat, not in violation of the Geneva Convention.
Did he have the clove of garlic around his neck?
The Geneva Conventions require signatories to abide by the conventions even in non-international conflicts, so Columbia probably broke the convention, as Uribe has admitted. But this is not nearly the big deal the MSM is making out of it.
The REAL question here is why FARC trusted the Red Cross emblem in the first place. Why did FARC find it acceptable that the Red Cross would be involved in transporting hostages?
BFD. Well if the left-wing terrorist sympathizers are too upset about this we can offer to give some of them back to FARC as new hostages. I recommend that we ask a few UN officials and other international bloviators to volunteer for this assignment.
AND, why did FARC find it so plausible and convincing that the Red Cross would be working with the clowns wearing Che Guevara t-shirts???
THIS is what needs to be publicized, the utter depravity of a world in which FARC could believe that the Red Cross and various left-wing NGOs could be working together hand-in-glove to transport hostages.
ahh....if only.
[***But the use of the Red Cross symbol takes some of the shine off the rescue.***]
Bull. It makes the sweet smell of success, all the more succulent! Very clever in the inception AND the act.
>Falsely portraying military personnel as Red Cross members is against the Geneva Conventions as it could put humanitarian workers at risk when they are in war zones.<
So is putting POWs up before military tribunals, but you people don’t have a problem with terrorists in our civilian courts...
Think of how may terrorist attacks you’ve heard of using ambulances and ask, why didn’t this hue and cry sound over them?
Colombian military used Red Cross emblem in rescue (Load of CNN crapola)
CNN 7/15/2008 CNN
Posted on Tuesday July 15, 18:40:11 GMT-0700 2008 by tobyhill
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046099/posts
The difference in the two articles is that now Columbia said sorry today.
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