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Amnesty International: Osama bin Laden raid was illegal
The Telegraph ^ | 5/24/2012

Posted on 05/23/2012 10:41:54 PM PDT by South40

Amnesty International condemned the United States on Wednesday for the "unlawful" commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden in his lair in Pakistan.

"The US administration made clear that the operation had been conducted under the US's theory of a global armed conflict between the US and al-Qaeda in which the US does not recognise the applicability of international human rights law," the human rights group said in its annual report.

"In the absence of further clarification from the US authorities, the killing of Osama bin Laden would appear to have been unlawful," it said.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: binladen; binlyin; obama; osama
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To: South40

If this becomes the official story Penatta will take the blame. The press releases are already written.


21 posted on 05/24/2012 12:10:26 AM PDT by Terry Mross ("It happened. And we let it happen." Peter Griffin - FAMILY GUY)
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To: South40

Was Osama’s raid on the twin tower and the pentagon legal?


22 posted on 05/24/2012 12:17:00 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: South40

How do the even know he’s dead? So far we have seen nada proof.


23 posted on 05/24/2012 12:17:40 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Some day our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: South40

To make this right, they need to sneak up on that SEAL Team some night and scream, “Citizen’s arrest...citizen’s arrest!”


24 posted on 05/24/2012 12:19:11 AM PDT by BikerTrash
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To: South40
Hey AI

I got two words for you. SUCK IT! (cue up late 90's WWE gesture that goes with it)

25 posted on 05/24/2012 12:25:22 AM PDT by Darren McCarty (The Republican Party is bigger than the presidency.)
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To: South40

Time to raid AI, maybe?


26 posted on 05/24/2012 1:09:39 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: South40

I wonder if they think that attack on New York was also illegal.


27 posted on 05/24/2012 1:15:26 AM PDT by krb (Obama is a miserable failure.)
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To: South40; Kenny Bunk

When I was in (middle and high) school I used to write letters for Amnesty International. We had a little club - I think I ran it, actually, at some point - and would just get the kids to write letters on all sorts of issues and send them to whomever.

Dear Mr. So and so, we demand that you free so-and-so, dear Ministers of the Republic of Veryverybad, please reconsider the death penalty, and so on. It was usually about the death penalty and international arms control.

Every once in awhile, Amnesty International’s aims match ours.

Thank goodness I was too dumb to make a difference when I was too dumb to know what kind of difference I should make.


28 posted on 05/24/2012 1:16:01 AM PDT by golux
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To: golux

I remember back as an undergrad there was an Amnesty International chapter on campus that dominated Student Senate when I actually got myself elected. Those people were the worst delusional knee jerk leftists you’ve ever seen. The lengths I had to go to to try and impose an iota of common sense in budgets and things was unreal.


29 posted on 05/24/2012 4:38:18 AM PDT by drbuzzard (All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

“How do the even know he’s dead? So far we have seen nada proof.”
That reflects my own view as well. As far as we know he is alive and well. Though at the very least I think we captured him.


30 posted on 05/24/2012 4:38:18 AM PDT by BigCinBigD
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To: Secret Agent Man

Think Seals should pay them a visit.....


31 posted on 05/24/2012 4:50:32 AM PDT by njslim (St)
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To: South40

Hadn’t Bush & Cheney been threatened with arrest too? Go ahead AI. Issue your warrent for bams.


32 posted on 05/24/2012 5:28:55 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: golux
Many decades ago, I was being held in durance vile in the Democratic People's Republic of Veryveryverybadistan. (Honest, Golux. I swear I thought she was 18)

I could see them building the gallows from the barred window in my cell. Suddenly, I was inexplicably released, given a fine seersucker suit from Brooks, a first class cabin to Marseilles, a fruit basket, and a perfectly chilled bottle of H.G. von Mumm, 1936.

Now, finally, I know the rest of the story!
Thank you, and thanks to the other youthful idealists in your obviously fine old school.
However, could you possibly inquire as to the whereabouts of my Dopp Kit?

33 posted on 05/24/2012 6:12:05 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (So, Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Roberts can't figure out if Obama is a Natural Born Citizen?)
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