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  • Senator: U.S. has become haven for war criminals

    11/14/2007 8:19:01 PM PST · by Graybeard58 · 19 replies · 60+ views
    McClatchy Washington Bureau ^ | Nov. 14, 2007 | Renee Schoof
    WASHINGTON — More than 1,000 people from 85 countries who are accused of such crimes as rape, killings, torture and genocide are living in the United States, according to Department of Homeland Security figures. America has become a haven for the world's war criminals because it lacks the laws needed to prosecute them, Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., said Wednesday. There's been only one U.S. indictment of someone suspected of a serious human-rights abuse. Durbin said torture was the only serious human-rights violation that was a crime under American law when committed outside the United States by a non-American national. "This...