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International arrest warrants requested

by MRN
January 1, 2013July 25, 2013

Complaint Filed Against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al

(source: Information Clearing House)

Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, U.S.A. has filed a Complaint with the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (I.C.C.) in The Hague against U.S. citizens George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Condoleezza Rice, and Alberto Gonzales (the “Accused”) for their criminal policy and practice of “extraordinary rendition” perpetrated upon about 100 human beings. This term is really their euphemism for the enforced disappearance of persons and their consequent torture. This criminal policy and practice by the Accused constitute Crimes against Humanity in violation of the Rome Statute establishing the I.C.C.

The United States is not a party to the Rome Statute. Nevertheless the Accused have ordered and been responsible for the commission of I.C.C. statutory crimes within the respective territories of many I.C.C. member states, including several in Europe. Consequently, the I.C.C. has jurisdiction to prosecute the Accused for their I.C.C. statutory crimes under Rome Statute article 12(2)(a) that affords the I.C.C. jurisdiction to prosecute for I.C.C. statutory crimes committed in I.C.C. member states.

Academics fuel hatred of muslims

by MRN
January 1, 2013July 25, 2013

By Firoz Osman

(source: Th Star – January 21, 2010 Edition 1)

The advent of 2010 heralds for South Africa the Soccer World Cup, and the associated anxieties that the world’s greatest sports event must proceed without incident. The SA Football Association (SAFA) has convincingly dispatched the pessimists and cynics who questioned South Africa’s capabilities of hosting the World Cup, but other detractors have emerged from the woodwork.

Self-proclaimed “terror and security experts”, among them one Hussein Solomon, warned, citing faceless and dubious “intelligence” sources, that Al-Qaeda, harboured by the SA Muslim community, “of a terror plot targeting US interests in South Africa.” (Togo terror: taste of more to come? 14.01.2010).

Israel finds a new way to play the victim

by MRN
January 1, 2013July 25, 2013

By Ira Chernus

(source: AntiWar.com)

A report released by the United Nations last year says that Israeli settlers, angered over the destruction of Jewish outposts, could exact revenge on up to a quarter million Palestinians in the West Bank.

It’s not just vague speculation. The report, issued by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Occupied Palestinian Territory, names 22 specific Palestinian communities, with a total population of 75,900, that are “highly vulnerable” to revenge attacks, and another 59, with about 175,000 residents, that are “moderately vulnerable.” It also names numerous road segments and junctions where Palestinians are especially at risk.

The people who wrote this report have obviously been there, observed carefully, and know what they are talking about.

Academics fuel hatred of muslims

by MRN
January 1, 2013July 25, 2013

By Firoz Osman

(source: The Star – January 21, 2010 Edition 1)

Self-proclaimed "terror and security experts", among them Hussein Solomon, have warned "of a terror plot targeting US interests in South Africa" (The Star, January 14). Citing faceless and dubious "intelligence" sources, they claim that al-Qaeda operatives are harboured by the Muslim community in South Africa.

The inquiry into Britain’s role in the invasion of Iraq should provide an explicit lesson about the nefarious workings of "intelligence" agencies in pursuing diabolical agendas with heinous motives.

What has emerged reveals that then prime minister Tony Blair used fabricated evidence to support the US in invading Iraq, an unjustified act of war in violation of international law. This "evidence" included: that Saddam Hussein cooperated with al-Qaeda and was responsible for 9/11; that Iraq sought uranium from Niger; that Iraq tried to import aluminium tubes for gas centrifuges; and that Iraq had 10 000 litres of anthrax. Intelligence also produced dodgy dossiers that Iraq was capable of launching weapons of mass destruction; that two trailers were mobile biological laboratories; that it had vast stocks of chemical and biological weapons; and that war with Iraq would be a cakewalk!