Re: U.S., Israel are the Terrorists

"DoD" <danskisanjar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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 don't live for this world, as many of the Ikhwan [Brotherhood]
seem to believe unfortunately. We live for the afterlife. This dunya
[world] is for Joe Kaufman and Alan Dershowitz and George Bush. Let
them have it because they'll have no share in the next
life.”

Nothing radical about that! And so true. Jews murder a mother of six 
children and claim that they won the war!

NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD CALLS FOR SPECIAL PROSECUTOR TO INVESTIGATE BUSH 
ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS AND LAWYERS WHO WROTE TORTURE MEMOS

ISSUES WHITE PAPER ON TORTURE LIABILITY

New York. The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) calls on Congress to appoint a 
Special Prosecutor, independent of the Department of Justice, to
investigate 
and prosecute high Bush officials and lawyers including John Yoo for their

role in the torture of prisoners in U.S. custody.


The NLG has issued a White Paper explaining why the memos, which pur****ted

to give objective legal advice, subject all those involved to prosecution 
under international and U.S. domestic law. This includes people who
ordered 
the torture, approved it or gave advice to justify it.


Guild President Marjorie Cohn testified on May 6 before the Subcommittee
on 
the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties of the House Judiciary 
Committee, that some lawyers in the Department of Justice were "part of a 
common plan to violate U.S. and international laws outlawing torture."


The 14-page White Paper details the ways in which the lawyers, including 
Yoo, Jay Bybee, David Addington, and William Haynes, counseled the White 
House on how to get away with war crimes. The lawyers said that the 
Department of Justice would not enforce federal laws against torture, 
maiming, assault and stalking. "Just because the statute says," John Yoo 
explained in a recent Esquire interview, "that doesn't mean you have to do

it."


Professor Cohn told the congressmen it was "reasonably foreseeable" the 
lawyers' advice "would result in great physical and mental harm or death
to 
many detainees"; more than 100 have died, many from torture. Torture, like

genocide, slavery and wars of aggression, is absolutely prohibited at all 
times. No country can ever pass a law that would allow them.


Professor Philippe Sands, a British international litigator and author of 
the new book, "Torture Team," also testified at the congressional hearing.

He said that after his extensive interviews with many Bush officials, 
including John Yoo, "it became clear to me that the Administration has
spun 
a narrative that is false, claiming that the impetus for the new 
interrogation techniques came from the bottom-up. That is not true; the 
abuse was a result of pressure and actions driven from the highest levels
of 
government."


It was recently revealed that Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Donald 
Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, George Tenet, and John Ashcroft met in the White 
House and personally oversaw and approved the torture by authorizing 
specific torture techniques including waterboarding. President Bush
admitted 
he knew and approved of their actions.


"They are all liable under the War Crimes Act and the Torture Statute," 
Professor Cohn testified. "Under the doctrine of command responsibility, 
commanders, all the way up the chain of command to the commander-in-chief,

are liable for war crimes if they knew or should have known their 
subordinates would commit them, and they did nothing to stop or prevent
it. 
The Bush officials ordered the torture after seeking legal cover from
their 
lawyers."


The National Lawyers Guild calls on Congress to appoint a Special 
Prosecutor, independent of the Department of Justice, to investigate and 
prosecute the high officials of the Bush administration and the lawyers
who 
advised them, for their roles in misusing the rule of law and legal
analysis 
to justify torture and other crimes.

The White Paper can be read at www.nlg.org/news/statements/White Paper -
Yoo 
hearing.doc