[xDGx]

They should have used the Red Crescent...

[calex59]

Such a use of the Red Cross emblem could constitute a "war crime" under the Geneva Conventions and international humanitarian law and could endanger humanitarian workers in the future, according to international legal expert Mark Ellis, executive director of the International Bar Association.

Do these people have no shame? Is any lie to monstrous for them not to spout it as gospel? You have to be a war with a Geneva signatory, and this would be a country not a group of traitorous rebels, before the Geneva Convention applies. Who ever this idiot "expert" is, he is so full of sh** I can smell him from here.

[FlingWingFlyer]

It’s a wonder that CNN’s leftest guerilla buddies didn’t kill them all once they saw that Red Cross. I think they were pretty lucky. What they did was pretty risky.

[HoosierHawk]

Colombian military intelligence used the Red Cross emblem in a rescue operation in which leftist guerrillas were duped into handing over 15 hostages, according to unpublished photographs and video viewed by CNN.

So what?

And if CNN had access to photos and videos, they'd already be plastered all over the TV screen.

[icwhatudo]

You know, I’ve never seen so much hand-wringing over an operation like this. Its like the media is upset the good guys won. Every day it seems a new story comes out trying to find something, ANYTHING, wrong with what was done. Sad really.

[Former War Criminal]

Like Rush says of the MSM: “Believe nothing you read, and half of what you see!”

Where’s the proof?

[JimSEA]

At least Colombia can claim that whatever they did, they learned from the Palestinians, except they didn't put a bomb on the ambulance (shame).

[dalebert]

lol . what a waste

[Chode]

cnn delenda est...

[plan2succeed.org]

Remember Jordan Eason of CNN hiding information for years and years about Saddam Hussein's regime? Oh, that's right, Columbia has made tremendous strides against terrorism, and it is also one of President Bush's greatest triumphs vis-a-vis terrorism.

[richardtavor]

I do not see any kind of cross. Can it be that CNN has invented another story? It is not exactly like bombs falling out of red crescent ambulances, it it, when you can’t even see crosses. I fear that the cnn pukes are smoking crack again.

[OCC]

So its against the Geneva Convention to trick hostage takers in to giving up hostages?

[texas booster]

Would CNN have preferred that Colombia used Venezuelan flagged helicopters instead?

Same diff down there.

[atomic conspiracy]

“Such a use of the Red Cross emblem could constitute a ‘war crime’ under the Geneva Conventions and international humanitarian law and could endanger humanitarian workers in the future, according to international legal expert Mark Ellis, executive director of the International Bar Association.”

Ellis is lying.

Anyone who has ever been in the military, or has even seen a reasonable amount of authentic combat video, will know that military medical personnel are permitted to wear the Red Cross as part of their uniforms.

Similarly, the Geneva Conventions specify that unarmed aircraft used for the evacuation of casualties (and the hostages were clearly in need of medical attention) may be marked with the Red Cross. The use of threats, force, or tactical deception to prevent interference with a lawful attempt to evacuate sick or wounded is, itself, perfectly lawful.

[denydenydeny]

could constitute a "war crime" under the Geneva Conventions

It doesn't. But that's not the point of this piece.

The point is to give the left-wing blogs something to point to when they call Uribe a "war criminal."