On May 13, 2:36=A0pm, "ElParedon" <ser...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "DoD" <danskisan...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>
>
news:36b9fea8-a839-46c9-8683-18ef895ce16c@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> =93We 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.=94
>
> 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
investiga=
te
> 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
ordere=
d
> the torture, approved it or gave advice to justify it.
>
> Guild President Marjorie Cohn testified on May 6 before the Subcommittee
o=
n
> 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
t=
o
> 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
spu=
n
> 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
admitt=
ed
> 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
thei=
r
> 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
wh=
o
> advised them, for their roles in misusing the rule of law and legal
analys=
is
> to justify torture and other crimes.
>
> The White Paper can be read atwww.nlg.org/news/statements/WhitePaper -
Yoo=
> hearing.doc
You must seek allah. he can be found on uranus..


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DoD <danskisanjar@[EMA |
2008-05-13 09:28:45 |
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Al Nakba <williamhubba |
2008-05-13 09:46:46 |
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"ElParedon" < |
2008-05-13 17:36:31 |
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"Fartass Jewad" |
2008-05-14 21:33:39 |
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Al Nakba <williamhubba |
2008-05-13 19:38:05 |
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"ElParedon" < |
2008-05-13 23:10:35 |
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"Fartass Jewad" |
2008-05-14 21:33:55 |
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NefeshBarYohai <tachna |
2008-05-13 20:42:12 |
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Jewdas <jewdas@[EMAIL |
2008-05-14 01:25:06 |
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flaviaR@[EMAIL PROTECTED] |
2008-05-14 04:23:38 |
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Eli Grubman <eli.grubm |
2008-05-14 01:45:28 |
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DoD <danskisanjar@[EMA |
2008-05-13 22:53:33 |
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flaviaR@[EMAIL PROTECTED] |
2008-05-14 13:48:32 |
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"Jamie Peters" |
2008-05-14 07:22:18 |
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"ElParedon" < |
2008-05-14 10:11:09 |
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"Jason P" <j |
2008-05-14 07:27:41 |
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Al Nakba <williamhubba |
2008-05-14 06:48:45 |
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Al Nakba <williamhubba |
2008-05-14 09:12:02 |
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"DoD" <dansk |
2008-05-14 17:57:01 |
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"Jason P" <j |
2008-05-14 18:23:41 |
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Michael Ejercito <meje |
2008-05-14 16:50:16 |
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Eli Grubman <eli.grubm |
2008-05-15 00:28:28 |
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"Jamie Peters" |
2008-05-14 22:17:38 |
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Michael Ejercito <meje |
2008-05-14 16:51:25 |
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"Jamie Peters" |
2008-05-14 18:25:43 |
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Al Nakba <williamhubba |
2008-05-14 20:02:59 |
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DoD <danskisanjar@[EMA |
2008-05-14 20:13:56 |
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Al Nakba <williamhubba |
2008-05-14 23:17:35 |
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