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UN experts call for prosecution over US torture
The Richmond Times-Dispatch / The Associated Press ^ | December 10, 2014

Posted on 12/10/2014 11:18:19 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

GENEVA (AP) — All senior U.S. officials and CIA agents who authorized and carried out torture like waterboarding as part of former President George W. Bush's national security policy must be prosecuted, top U.N. human rights officials said Wednesday.

The U.N. high commissioner for human rights, Zeid Raad al-Hussein, said it is "crystal clear" under international law that the United States, which ratified the U.N. Convention Against Torture in 1994, now has an obligation to ensure accountability.....

(Excerpt) Read more at timesdispatch.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bush; getbush; iraq; islamicimperialism; lifeamongthekufir; torture; unitednations; unscandals
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You can’t tell me this wasn’t coordinated. They said the DOJ won’t prosecute, but watch them hand these guys over to the Hague for trial.

The endgame? Obama wants to ensure that no patriot DARE stick their necks out for America again.


21 posted on 12/10/2014 11:42:24 AM PST by rbg81
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Zeid Raad al-Huessein should have a hot poker rammed up where the sun don’t shine.


22 posted on 12/10/2014 11:46:08 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Amnesty is Obama's Way of Saying "FU" to all those who voted on November 4th)
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23 posted on 12/10/2014 11:49:28 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, N recruitot a cut Matter of Opinion)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Zeid_bin_Ra%27ad

Mom = Swedish , wife = Texan / British
children = Muslim

ALL children from marriage to muslim males = muslim

This is why non-muslim women should NEVER marry or procreate with muslim men

We get guys like this . And the POTUS ....


24 posted on 12/10/2014 11:50:52 AM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Unexpected!


25 posted on 12/10/2014 12:00:27 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

US Special Forces, and I think SEALs, waterboard each other for training. They should be given trials too!

Any Senator who voted yes for any military appropriations bill is guilty too!


26 posted on 12/10/2014 12:01:59 PM PST by DBrow
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