First of all thanks to Ducimus for correctly interpretating my yawn! To beSpecific, I didn't understand the reason for the thread. These sort of things happen every other day around the world and its very unusual for anything to come of them. (I'm trying to remember the number of cases in the UK courts where they are trying to indite Blair for War Crimes.) The other reason for the "Yawn" is where the hell are all these references to the EU coming from. The EU is a glorified version of NAFTA. NAFTA doesn't have a criminal justice system, why the hell would the EU as currently constituted have one!?
The only thing actually worthy of notice here is the concept of Universal Jurisdiction. Its a relatively new concept in International Law, but it is one that is accepted among most countries (including the USA). Certain crimes are at the discression of courts in other sovereign states. They tend to include the Jus Cogans of Genocide and Crimes against Hummanity.
Was the conduct of the US administration legally dubious? Of course, any lawyer would say so. Does the conduct of members of the US administration come under the perview of the ICC or countries exercising Universal Jurisdiction. I think not.
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Originally Posted by fredbass
As far as I can tell, the reports have shown that what happened at the prisons were very minor. I know I wouldn't believe most of what those 11 Iraqis are saying.
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I've never come across any such report, and certainly thats not what the reports I've seen have to say on Abu Grave. I would be keen to see them if you remember where they are? If not, anything that could go into a google keyword search would be useful.