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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI figured I'd post the 2007 EU statement on War Crimes committed by US in OIF
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&reference=P6-TA-2007-0032&language=EN&ring=A6-2007-0020. whereas it is necessary to create efficient legal instruments to combat terrorism within the framework of both international and national law,
J. whereas the United States (US) Government's strategy to combat terrorism has made use of pervasive instruments to monitor sensitive data relating to European citizens, such as the Passenger Names Record (PNR) agreement, and to monitor bank details through the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (Swift) network,
K. whereas this report is not intended to be an attack on the secretive nature of the secret services, but rather is intended to denounce the unlawfulness of those secret activities which, in the circumstances under investigation, led to the infringement of national and international law in the absence of appropriate democratic control,
L. whereas on 6 September 2006, US President George W. Bush confirmed that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was operating a secret detention programme outside the United States,
M. whereas President George W. Bush said that the vital information derived from the extraordinary rendition and secret detention programme had been shared with other countries and that the programme would continue, which raises the strong possibility that some European countries may have received, knowingly or unknowingly, information obtained under torture,
N. whereas the Temporary Committee has obtained, from a confidential source, records of the informal transatlantic meeting of European Union (EU) and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) foreign ministers, including US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on 7 December 2005, confirming that Member States had knowledge of the programme of extraordinary rendition, while all official interlocutors of the Temporary Committee provided inaccurate information about this matter,
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I figured I'd post the 2007 EU statement on War Crimes committed by US in OIF (Original Post)
w8liftinglady
Dec 2014
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MerryBlooms
(11,769 posts)1. I'm listening to Thom Hartmann and reading all these posts
I'm almost in tears. I'm mortified that it is worse than we imagined.
I can't believe this horrific crimes were done in our name.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)2. Thom is saying that they are frightened little men.
I say they are frightened little men, and they are psychotic criminals who indulge in great glee in tormenting, torturing and harming others. They did this intentionally out of sick, bizarre pleasure, not from simple fear.
Gothmog
(145,195 posts)3. Thank you for posting