http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/warcrime/ en-us Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:50:15 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2192038/posts When discussing war crimes during World War II, two events usually get thrown out as indictments of the Allies: dropping atomic weapons on the Japanese and the raid of Dresden, in which 25,000 people died mostly of the raging fire that swept the German city. Critics accuse the Allies of deliberately attacking a civilian population center with little military value as a payback for Nazi attacks on Britain. This perception gained a lot of credence through Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse 5, his autobiographical tale inspired by his eyewitness experience at Dresden as a POW. Interestingly, though, Germans apparently tend to view... HOTAIR.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2192038/posts#comment Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:50:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2170507/posts Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has put the justice minister in charge of defending Israel against charges of war crimes during its 22-day Gaza assault,a government source said Friday. Daniel Friedman will lead an inter-ministerial team to coordinate a legal defence for civilians and the military,the source said. And Defence Minister Ehud Barak was also due to ask the government to approve on Sunday a bill "offering moral and legal backing to army officers and soldiers following Operation Cast Lead," his ministry said. "The Israeli government bore responsibility for sending the Israel Defence Forces (army) commanders and soldiers to protect its... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2170507/posts#comment Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:15:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2165873/posts The Taliban shot dead a 30-year-old man accused of spying for U.S. forces across the border in Afghanistan, media reports said. They said the man, who was abducted from Miranshah in North Waziristan a month ago after a suspected American drone attack on a militant hideout in the area, was gunned down before dawn Thursday and his body dumped on a roadside in the same area. A note placed near the body described him as a 'U.S. spy.' Earlier Wednesday, in North Waziristan, the Taliban released a senior government official who was abducted last month from Mir Ali district. "Asmatullah... RTTNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2165873/posts#comment Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:15:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2160448/posts Does the United Nations knowingly and willfully give material support to Hamas terrorists? It is now a proven fact that Hamas terrorists were using a United Nations (UNRWA) school in the Gaza Strip as a position from which to shell Israel. When the Israeli Defense Forces returned the terrorists' fire, a shell struck the terrorists' booby traps and the resulting secondary explosions killed thirty or more civilians who had taken refuge at what they believed to be a noncombatant or neutral building. The information that we have is that there was the launching of a mortar from the school's yard... Israpundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2160448/posts#comment Wed, 7 Jan 2009 20:21:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046544/posts Leave it to CNN to worry that the Colombian government committed a war crime in its recent rescue of FARC hostages, including former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046544/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:37:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046386/posts The U.S. Justice Department has asked a Seattle federal court to revoke the citizenship of a Washington state resident accused of serving the Nazis. Tuesday's complaint alleges that Yugoslavian-born Peter Egner, 86, in April 1941 joined the Nazi-controlled Security Police and Security Service in German-occupied Belgrade, Serbia, a Nazi mobile killing unit that participated in the mass murder of more than 17,000 Serbian civilians during World War II. According to the complaint, Egner has admitted volunteering to serve in the Security Police and Security Service and guarding prisoners as they were being transferred to concentration camps. Egner also admitted serving... JTA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046386/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:48:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046099/posts BOGOTA, Colombia (CNN) -- 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. Photographs of the Colombian military intelligence-led team that spearheaded the rescue, shown to CNN by a confidential military source, show one man wearing a bib with the Red Cross symbol. The military source said the three photos were taken moments before the mission took off to persuade the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia rebels to release the hostages to a supposed international aid group... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046099/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:40:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043956/posts The body of Alex R. Jimenez, a Lawrence-based soldier who was kidnapped more than a year ago, has been found in Iraq in a tragic ending to a family's wrenching hope for his return. Jimenez's father, Ramon "Andy'' Jimenez, was notified by Army servicemen who came to his home yesterday that his son's body was found two days ago by Iraqi authorities, who contacted their American counterparts. The elder Ramirez, who had held out hope that he would one day see his son's return, seemed to come to terms with the news. "It comforts you when you accept something, and... Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043956/posts#comment Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:05:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043766/posts Wisconsin's version of Ward Churchill, ultra left wingnut Kevin Barrett, has accused Wisconsin Congressman Ron Kind (D-WI03) of promulgating "an act of war propaganda whose knowing transmission arguably constitutes a war crime." Barrett sent out the following press release via email: ------------------------------------------------------- Barrett to Kind: Retract "Wiped off the Map" Lie! For Immediate Release - June 27, 2008 Contact: Dr. Kevin Barrett; 608-583-2132, kbarrett@merr.com Rolf Lindgren; 608-279-5889, rolfusaugustusadolphus@yahoo.com Kevin Barrett, the peace candidate for Congress who is challenging pro-war Democratic incumbent Ron Kind in Wisconsin's District 3, has written to Kind demanding that he retract his false and libelous statement... Barrett For Congress http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043766/posts#comment Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:53:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015619/posts FBI Monitoring 'Incident' At Ridley Township Plant RIDLEY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (CBS3/AP) ― Boeing Rotorcraft Systems temporarily shut down a production line for several hours Tuesday at its suburban Philadelphia plant because of possible irregularities discovered in two military helicopters. The company disclosed few specifics about why the shutdown of the H-47 Chinook helicopter line at the plant in Ridley Township, Pa., occurred. It said an investigation was under way and it was working with the Defense Contract Management Agency, which oversees military suppliers. Boeing officials said they discovered "irregularities" in two of the aircrafts that were being assembled at the... CPS 3 Philadelphia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015619/posts#comment Wed, 14 May 2008 03:09:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990510/posts Serbia is commemorating today nine years since the beginning of NATO air strikes on then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The strikes lasted 11 weeks and according to different sources between 1,200 and 2,500 people were killed. Serbia PM Vojislav Kostunica shall attend today the commemoration service dedicated to the victims of NATO aggression on FRY in 1999, while the Defense Minister Dragan Sutanovic shall meet with the pilots that took part in combat actions and members of the families of the pilots that lost their lives in those actions. Minister Sutanovac shall also lay the wreaths on the monument dedicated... Blic on line http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990510/posts#comment Mon, 24 Mar 2008 06:55:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1968324/posts Thallium has been described as an ideal assassin's tool The UK government has flown antidote medicine to the Middle East after some Iraqis became seriously ill from eating cakes laced with the poison thallium. Two of the victims, both children, died after eating cake delivered to a military club in Baghdad. Others are being treated in hospital in the Jordanian capital, Amman. It is the first time the deadly toxin has been used since the downfall of Saddam Hussein, whose regime used it to kill its opponents. At least two of the poison victims, the secretary of the Iraqi... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1968324/posts#comment Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:33:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1918990/posts Court finds 21 guilty of Madrid bombings By Leslie Crawford in Madrid Published: October 31 2007 14:27 | Last updated: October 31 2007 14:27 A Spanish court on Wednesday convicted 21 people of involvement in the country’s worst terrorist attack, the 2004 Madrid train bombings that traumatised a nation three days before a general election. Seven of the defendants were acquitted, including an Egyptian accused of masterminding the attacks. The March 11 bombings, which killed 191 commuters and injured more than 1,800 in the early morning rush hour, changed the course of Spanish politics. The conservative Popular party government... The Financial Times (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1918990/posts#comment Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:24:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1856559/posts Taliban terrorists tried talking an 8 year old boy into wearing a vest which would 'throw out flowers' when he pulled a cord. Luckily, this just didn't sound right and the kid asked some Afgan soldiers if this was true. They unstrapped the IED from the kid. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1856559/posts#comment Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:40:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1828063/posts BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- American soldiers discovered a girls' school being built north of Baghdad had become an explosives-rigged "death trap," the U.S. military said Thursday. The plot at the Huda Girls' school in Tarmiya was a "sophisticated and premeditated attempt to inflict massive casualties on our most innocent victims," military spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said. The military suspects the plot was the work of al Qaeda, because of its nature and sophistication, Caldwell said in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer. The plot was uncovered Saturday, when troopers in the Salaheddin province found detonating wire across the street... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1828063/posts#comment Thu, 3 May 2007 23:16:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1812853/posts They looked like a Vauxhall Conference football team being led out at Wembley by Nora Batty before the final of the Leyland DAF trophy. Fourteen men kitted out in ill-fitting suits from the local branch of John Collier, John Collier, the window to watch, and a dumpy bird in a Les Dawson headscarf. They're coming home, they're coming home, they're coming. . . Blink and it could have been the Guildford branch of the Manchester United supporters' club arriving back at the airport, complaining about being roughed up by the Italian riot police. I'm sorry if this is going to... Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1812853/posts#comment Fri, 6 Apr 2007 01:10:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1776534/posts BAGHDAD, Jan. 30 — Investigators believe that attackers who used American-style uniforms and weapons to infiltrate a secure compound and kill five American soldiers in Karbala on Jan. 20 may have been trained and financed by Iranian agents, according to American and Iraqi officials knowledgeable about the probe. The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1776534/posts#comment Wed, 31 Jan 2007 03:41:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1774324/posts Four American soldiers were abducted during a sophisticated sneak attack last week in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, the U.S. military confirmed Friday. It said three were shot to death and a fourth was mortally wounded with a gunshot to the head when they were found in a neighboring province, far from the compound where they were captured. Two of the four were handcuffed together in the back seat of an SUV near the southern Iraqi town of Mahawil. A third dead soldier was on the ground nearby. The fourth soldier died on the way to the hospital, the... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1774324/posts#comment Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:44:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1719270/posts Michael Ignatieff, the former Harvard human rights professor and current candidate for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada, has made two serious misstatements regarding the recent war between Hezbollah and Israel, and most particularly the Israeli military actions in the Lebanese town of Qana. Back in August, Ignatieff said that he was "not losing sleep" over the attack in which 29 civilians, who had sought refuge in a building, were killed when the Israeli air force fired a missile at what it believed was a Hezbollah rocket-launching site. Every humane person -- and Ignatieff is surely that --... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1719270/posts#comment Sat, 14 Oct 2006 12:05:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1712369/posts IRAQI officers loyal to Saddam Hussain filmed their cold-blooded murder of two British bomb disposal officers who were captured after a roadside ambush.An inquest was told that Staff Sergeant Simon Cullingworth, 36, and Sapper Luke Allsopp, 24, thought that they were being taken to hospital for treatment, but instead they were moved to a compound run by Saddam’s military intelligence. The harrowing ordeal lasted for hours until Iraqi agents killed the pair. The soldiers were buried in a shallow grave. At the inquest yesterday the coroner, Andrew Walker, severely criticised army chiefs for failing to ensure that the soldiers avoided... The Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1712369/posts#comment Mon, 2 Oct 2006 23:13:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1707038/posts <p>Fox News reporting a new video is out. It shows two dead american soldiers burned and being dragged through the streets.</p> <p>There is a belief that they are the bodies of troopers Tucker and Menchaca.</p> AP via Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1707038/posts#comment Sat, 23 Sep 2006 19:10:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1698014/posts LONDON, England (CNN) -- CNN's Becky Anderson interviews Peter Herbert, a British human rights lawyer who visited Richard Reid, the so-called "shoe-bomber" in a U.S. jail in 2002. Herbert, who had no role in Reid's defense, was interviewed at his office in London. Here is the full transcript: Anderson: So you traveled to see him? (Watch the interview -- 3:04) ... Q. Well, you talked at length I believe and perhaps with more detail than you might have expected about what had happened that day and indeed why Richard Reid had been involved. When you asked him why young men... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1698014/posts#comment Fri, 8 Sep 2006 20:33:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1687439/posts TEL AVIV, Israel — In the least friendly fire imaginable, Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon encountered Hezbollah wearing Israel Defense Force uniforms, the Jewish state's leading investigative news program reported. During a battle on the evening of August 6 and early hours of August 7, in the town of Hule, an IDF unit found two Hezbollah dressed in Israeli fatigues and helmets in a civilian home. The battlefield commander was forced to order his men to remove the white hats they wear on their helmets to distinguish his men from the enemy. An embedded reporter, Itai Engel, from the weekly... New York Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1687439/posts#comment Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:35:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1683001/posts An Iraqi insurgent group said it attacked U.S. forces near Baghdad by setting off explosives attached to a dog, according to a video posted on the Internet on Sunday. A distant shot in a video issued by the group appeared to show a dog sitting on the side of a road as a military vehicle approached, moments before a large explosion occurred. Iraq's Jihadi Factions, which has claimed responsibility for attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces, said it carried out the attack in the Abu Ghraib area west of Baghdad, targeting U.S. forces, without giving a date. Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1683001/posts#comment Sun, 13 Aug 2006 20:13:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1682728/posts NORTH COUNTY ---- The focus at Camp Pendleton is about to shift from teaching troops the latest warfare techniques to trying Marines for alleged war crimes in Iraq. Separate cases involving two Camp Pendleton units allege members of two platoons violated the Pentagon's rules of engagement and killed 25 Iraqis, many of whom authorities say were clearly noncombatants. One case, which arises out of the slaying of a 52-year-old Iraqi man in the village of Hamdania on April 26, has landed seven Marines and a Navy corpsman in the base brig on charges of premeditated murder and kidnapping. The other... North County Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1682728/posts#comment Sun, 13 Aug 2006 06:09:35 GMT