Thursday, May 24, 2012

Watch Out Amnesty

With MEK set to be taken off the US terrorist list, there'll be space available. And don't forget: we have drones.
“In the absence of further clarification from the US authorities, the killing of Osama bin Laden would appear to have been unlawful,” [Amnesty International said in its annual report.]

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“The US administration made clear that the operation had been conducted under the USA’s theory of a global armed conflict between the USA and Al-Qaeda in which the USA does not recognize the applicability of international human rights law.”

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Amnesty said a request for clarification over an apparent US drone strike in Yemen last September that killed US-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaqi, his Al-Qaeda co-conspirator Samir Khan and at least two others had also gone unanswered.

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The global rights monitor also criticized Canada for failing to arrest Bush when he visited in October, “despite clear evidence that he was responsible for crimes under international law, including torture.”

  Raw Story
That would have been so good for us. And the world.

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