War Tribunal | freedetainees.org

..Big shock, right? If the administration had a conscience at all they would have let the ruling stand, and they would have ended the kangaroo kourts, not stepped them up to be sure they are done before bush leaves office…

By James Rowley and Robert Schmidt

U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey called on Congress to limit last month’s Supreme Court decision that gave Guantanamo Bay detainees the right to challenge their imprisonment in federal courts.

Congress should pass legislation that bars federal judges from ordering the release into the U.S. of any unlawful enemy combatants, Mukasey said in Washington as the first war-crimes trial at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba began this week. Many detainees “pose an extraordinary threat to Americans,” the attorney general said.

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By David Halpin

David Halpin looks at the litany of crimes for which former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will have to account sooner or later.

On the same day the BBC reported that former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz was to go on trial after five years in prison over the deaths of a group of Baghdad merchants in 1992, it was rumoured the former prime minister of Britain will be indicted for crimes against humanity. The list of charges is long and not confined to the many alleged crimes in Iraq. Mr Blair’s whereabouts are uncertain; he has been sighted occasionally in occupied East Jerusalem where he is acting as ?peace? envoy for the ?Quartet?. Most recently, he has been facilitating industrial zones for the employment of Palestinians and for the removal of a few of the over 500 Israeli Occupation Force roadblocks.

The charge list includes:

Ali Abbas - Iraqi boy incinerated by US bombs

Examination of this picture shows Ali Abbas was subjected to radiated heat

Breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention from the time he became prime minister in 1997 until March 2003 during whichtime draconian sanctions were being applied to the civilian population of Iraq. These sanctions prompted the resignation of Denis Halliday and Hans von Sponeck who served as assistant secretaries-general of the UN. The former stated that the effect of those sanctions was genocidal. It was established that there was an excess mortality of babies and children of at least 500,000 between 1992 and 2003. This had to do with foul water, poor nutrition and deteriorating medical services, all of which were satisfactory before the sanctions took hold.

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