George W. Bush - Terrorist in the White House

WAR CRIMES

The Commander and Chief of the Military, Should Be Held Accountable For These Crimes

TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 118 > § 2441

§ 2441. War crimes

(a) Offense.— Whoever, whether inside or outside the United States, commits a war crime, in any of the circumstances described in subsection (b), shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for life or any term of years, or both, and if death results to the victim, shall also be subject to the penalty of death.
(b) Circumstances.— The circumstances referred to in subsection (a) are that the person committing such war crime or the victim of such war crime is a member of the Armed Forces of the United States or a national of the United States (as defined in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act).
(c) Definition.— As used in this section the term “war crime” means any conduct—
(1) defined as a grave breach in any of the international conventions signed at Geneva 12 August 1949, or any protocol to such convention to which the United States is a party;
(2) prohibited by Article 23, 25, 27, or 28 of the Annex to the Hague Convention IV, Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land, signed 18 October 1907;
(3) which constitutes a violation of common Article 3 of the international conventions signed at Geneva, 12 August 1949, or any protocol to such convention to which the United States is a party and which deals with non-international armed conflict; or
(4) of a person who, in relation to an armed conflict and contrary to the provisions of the Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices as amended at Geneva on 3 May 1996 (Protocol II as amended on 3 May 1996), when the United States is a party to such Protocol, willfully kills or causes serious injury to civilians.

Andover law school convenes Bush War Crimes Conference PDF Stephen C. Webster September 13, 2008 [Long overdue -ed.]

Red Cross finds Bush administration guilty of war crimes PDF by Andrew McLemore July 12, 2008

Bush's 'war crimes' & misdemeanors PDF Middle East Online 09/06/2008

11 million dead in Afghanistan and Iraq? PDF By Dr Gideon Polya 08 February, 2008 Countercurrents.org

Holocaust Denial, American Style PDF By Mark Weisbrot, AlterNet November 21, 2007 - the British polling firm Opinion Research Business estimated 1,220,580 violent deaths since the US invasion.

War Crimes PDF By J Bruce Campbell 8-16-6

The Torture Tape Fingering Bush As a War Criminal PDF by Andrew Sullivan December 24, 2007 The Times Online

Bush bill pardons himself for his war crimes Video Sep 21, 2007

American Genocide In The Middle East: Three Million and Counting PDF by David Goodner CommonDreams.org August 8, 2007

The Iraq War: Legal or Illegal? Video

Wrecking Iraq: One Million Dead, 2 Million Wounded, 3 Million Displaced Collateral Genocide PDF By MIKE FERNER May 11, 2007

Janis Karpinski helps to go after Rumsfeld in Germany PDF November 14th, 2006

The Deeper Reality Behind Rumsfeld's Resignation PDF By Chris Floyd 11/09/06

Bush confesses to war crimes PDF Nicolas J S Davies, Online Journal Contributing Writer Sep 11, 2006

Retroactive War Crime Protection Proposed PDF by Pete Yost August 10, 2006

U.S. to drop Geneva rule, officials say PDF Clause bars humiliation, degradation of detainees by Julian E. Barnes June 5, 2006

New Army documents reveal US knew of and approved torture before Abu Ghraib scandal PDF RAW STORY May 2, 2006

Iran, Bush & Nuremberg PDF Peter Dyer, Consortiumnews.com May 16, 2006

U.S. prepares to face U.N. on torture as Amnesty report blasts 'war crimes' PDF RAW STORY April 28, 2006

Former aide to Powell: authorization for torture came from "the very top" PDF By Joanne Laurier 7 March 2006

One Thousand A Month Tortured To Death In Iraq PDF Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | February 21 2006 - the outgoing UN human rights chief, Dr. John Pace, dropped a bombshell when he told an obscure Maltese newspaper that as many as a thousand detainees a month are being tortured to death in Iraq.

BREAKING - New Abu Ghraib Photos Released PDF Daily Kos February 14, 2006

Last month, President George W. Bush murdered four children PDF

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION TORTURE MEMO SCANDAL PDF- This article ontains serveral memos in .PDF format

Amnesty International Calls for Prosecutions of U.S. Officials PDF Joshua Rubenstein interviewed by Scott Harris Between The Lines June 09, 2005

Amnesty Chief: US Kills Prisoners in Secret Jails PDF

New memo indicates Gen. Sanchez signed off on Abu Ghraib abuses, perjured himself before Congress PDF

Suit Alleges Rumsfeld Approved Torture - Two U.S. human rights groups sued Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday, saying he first authorized and then failed to stop torture of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan

US disclosures signal wider detainee abuse By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff | December 26, 2004

IRAQI POW ABUSE - A document released for the first time today by the American Civil Liberties Union suggests that President Bush issued an Executive Order authorizing the use of inhumane interrogation methods against detainees in Iraq [PDF download].

Navy probes new Iraq prisoner photos / Navy says tactics seen in photos OK PDF By Seth Hettena, AP December 3, 2004 [Will it be ok when it happens to US soldiers? -ed.]

Soldier says Abu Ghraib interrogators told him to stage mock electrocution Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington Thursday October 21, 2004

Iraq abuse 'ordered from the top' - Brig Gen Janis Karpinski told the BBC she was being made a "convenient scapegoat" for abuse ordered by others.

TEXT OF THE PENTAGON "TORTURE MEMO" Posted Jun 9, 2004 02:38 PM PST [You know the one Rummy refuses to give to Congress! -ed.]

'US president not bound by laws banning torture' PDF Washington, June 7

Bush uses "war on terror" as a pretext to commit war crimes, then White House lawyer tortures the truth. By Frederick Sweet

Bush’s legal propagandist defends the indefensible: torture in Afghanistan and Iraq By Richard Hoffman and Mike Head 20 May 2004

US press accounts confirm: Rumsfeld, Bush approved Iraq torture policy By Alex Lefebvre 18 May 2004

'Bush, Rumsfeld signed memo for Iraq abuse' Monday, 17 May , 2004

Memos Reveal War Crimes Warnings By Michael Isikoff Monday 17 May 2004

Call on the German Federal Prosecutor to Investigate Rumsfeld and Other U.S. Officials for War Crimes at Abu Ghraib Do it NOW!

Spc. Sabrina Harmon poses over the body of Manadel al-Jamadi who was a allegedly beaten to death by CIA or civilian interrogators in the prison's showers.

President Authorized Abu Ghraib Torture, FBI Email Says PDF by NewStandard Staff Dec. 21, 2004

Do you know this man? Baghdad Dweller August 2,2005

Private Contractors that routinely torture Iraqi prisoners are not subject to arrest or court martial by the coalition command. The military leaves it up to the companies to take disciplinary action. These contractors operate directly under Mossad intelligence and follow their policies on torture. The soldiers that are up for court martial have been made to be accomplises but are not the main culprits in the scandal. The private contractors working for the Mossad and the Mossad 'advisors' should also be on trial along with the leaders of the military at the highest level, including the Commander and Chief. --Webber

Pictures from an Inquisition by Jeff Sharlet - A crucial element of torture is humiliation. The fact of the victim's powerlessness must be impressed upon his psyche. Laughter is an effective tool, as demonstrated by this Inquisitor, 21-year-old Private Lynndie England, [Pictured above] of Ft. Ashby, W. Virginia. And genitals are often the focus of attention. Private England, since transferred back to the U.S., where she is expecting the child of Specialist Charles W. Graner (who also appears in the pictures), is here forcing the prisoners to masturbate -- a tactic proposed by her superiors in Military Intelligence to insult the prisoner's Islamic sensibilities and thus break his will through sexual shame.

Photos show jail abuse by US troops April 30, 2004 - The photographs were taken inside Abu Ghraib prison, near Baghdad, where US forces have been holding hundreds of Iraqis.

SHAME OF ABUSE BY BRIT TROOPS By Paul Byrne May 1 2004 - A HOODED Iraqi captive is beaten by British soldiers before being thrown from a moving truck and left to die.

AFGHANISTAN

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Also see the Use of Tactical Nuclear Weapons Section above for stories of the American Military nuking Afghanistan.

Afghan Massacres

[For more on this massacre, watch the movie, “Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death.” in our Movies & Multimedia Section]

America's Srebrenicia: What About the Hundreds of POWs Suffocated and Shot at Kunduz? - The brutal mistreatment at Abu Ghraib prison is small potatoes, compared to what appears to have been a U.S.-sponsored atrocity -- the mass murder of thousands of prisoners of war -- in Afghanistan less than three years ago.

‘US had role in Taleban prisoner deaths’ ANDREW McLEOD foreign editor - US SOLDIERS took part in the torture of Taleban prisoners and may have had a role in the "disappearance" of around 3,000 men in Mazar-i-Sharif in north-west Afghanistan, according to a new documentary

Afghan officials confirm US role in massacre of Taliban prisoners By Stefan Steinberg 17 March 2003 - In December of last year, Doran’s completed film Massacre in Afghanistan—Did the Americans Look On? was shown to German audiences. The film has already been shown in Britain and Italy and has been bought for showing in a total of 11 other countries. The American media has blocked virtually all coverage of the film and its allegations. The film was recently released, however, on video—titled Afghan Massacre—Convoy of Death, available from Doran’s production company at www.acftv.net

AFGHANISTAN: PRISONERS SUFFOCATE IN CONTAINERS - One survivor is quoted as saying that in his container, only seven people survived.

War Crimes in Afghanistan

Shock video shows bodies of children 'killed in US attack' PDF By Jerome Starkey 09 September 2008

Afghan official 'saw bodies of 50 children' killed in US strike PDF AFP August 29, 2008

Documents Obtained By ACLU Describe Charges Of Murder And Torture Of Prisoners In U.S. Custody PDF ACLU April 16, 2008

100+ Civilians Die In U.S.-NATO Air Assault In Afghanistan PDF By Griff Witte and Javed Hamdard Washington Post July 1, 2007

Knee Strikes Taught at Bagram to Gain Prisoner Compliance PDF - "I just don't understand how, if we were given training to do this, you can say that we were wrong and should have known better," said the soldier, Pvt. Willie V. Brand, 26, of Cincinnati, a father of four who volunteered for tours in Afghanistan and Kosovo.

'US jailers tortured innocent Afghan to death' PDF 21 May 2005

Reservist: Knee blows that killed 2 detainees were approved Mar. 26, 2005

Papers Reveal Torture at U.S. Bases in Afghanistan Friday 18 February 2005

Killers Without Borders By Mohammed Daud Miraki, MA, MA, PhD mdmiraki@ameritech.net 2-11-5 - There are more than 32,000 Afghan civilians - a conservative number - who have lost their lives to the US bombing. This number reflects only those victims who lost their lives from October 7, 2001 to the first three months of 2002.

Life In America's Secret Offshore Prison Network 'They Beat Me From All Sides' By James Meek The Guardian - UK 1-14-5 - An investigation by the Washington Post last year suggested that the US held 9,000 people overseas in an archipelago of known prisons (such as Abu Ghraib in Iraq) and unknown ones run by the Pentagon, the CIA or other organisations. But this figure does not include others "rendered" to third-party governments who then act as subcontractors for Washington, enabling the US to effectively torture detainees while technically denying that it carries out torture.

Dossier on Civilian Victims of United States' Aerial Bombing of Afghanistan: A Comprehensive Accounting [revised]

Afghanis Say U.S. Copter Bombing Kills 11 Monday January 19, 2004 - The governor of Uruzgan, Jan Mohammed Khan, confirmed Rahman's account that four men, four children and three women were killed in a U.S. bombing.

A war criminal visits the scene of the crime By Kate Randall 10 December 2003 - Rumsfeld’s appearance in Mazar-i-Sharif recalls one of the most gruesome episodes in the Bush administration’s war on Afghanistan.

US bombing kills 17 in Afghanistan Saturday, 20 September , 2003 - The nomads, all civilians, and two Taliban were killed when US warplanes Tuesday night bombed the nomads' camp in remote Shinkay district, 340 kilometres southwest of Kabul, Zabul governor Hafizullah Hashim said.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA International standards for all by Amnesty International - Meanwhile the US continues to hold the Guantánamo detainees in very harsh conditions, most of them confined alone to tiny cells for 24 hours a day and reportedly allowed to "exercise" in shackles for only 30 minutes a week - conditions which Amnesty International believes in their totality amount to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in violation of international standards.

Afghan prisoners beaten to death at US military interrogation base 'Blunt force injuries' cited in murder ruling by Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles

America admits suspects died in interrogations By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles - Torture is part of a long list of concerns about the Bush administration's respect for international law, after the extrajudicial killing of al-Qa'ida suspects by an unmanned drone in Yemen and the the indefinite detention of "enemy combatants" at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a number of whom have committed or attempted to commit suicide

U.S. Cluster Bombs Killed Civilians in Afghanistan
New Report Illustrates Dangers for Iraq (Washington, D.C., December 18, 2002)

This same week, the Bush administration announced a new strategy of covert actions and pre-emptive strikes, including nukes, against any country that dares attack U.S. troops now stationed in at least 148 nations throughout the world.

WAR CRIMES IN AFRICA

Massacre in Mogadishu—war crime made in the USA PDF By Bill Van Auken 28 April 2007

WAR CRIMES IN SOMALIA

US strikes on al-Qa'ida chiefs kill nomads PDF By Anne Penketh and Steve Bloomfield 13 January 2007

US air strikes killed over 100 Somalians PDF January 13, 2007

WAR CRIMES IN LEBANON

US Complicit In Israel War Crimes In Lebanon PDF By Dahr Jamail 7-20-6

Also see the Lebanon section on the Middle East News Page

EVIDENCE OF COMPLICITY

The U.S. is now a legitimate military target PDF by elishastephens Jul 22, 2006

IRAQ

"To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."

- Judgment of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg 1946, relating to "Count Two, the Crime of Aggression," as brought against Herman Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and 14 other defendants.

655,000 Iraqis Killed PDF 11 Oct 2006

Relevent Geneva Conventions PDF- Here's a good list to start the hanging party with

Is the US military torturing Iraqis with electricity? Dahr Jamail, Electronic Iraq, 8 January 2004 [Does a bear s... in the woods? -ed.]

Document: Intel Agents Who Saw Detainee Abuse Were Threatened

US Apache Helicopter massacring Iraqis (Video) www.globalresearch.ca 20 January 2004

Torture of Iraqi POWs: collected links Posted May 3, 2004

IRAQ 2004-Ongoing

"Iraq's a nation. The United States is a nation. The Geneva Conventions applied. They have applied every single day from the outset."

Donald Rumsfeld May, 2004 [Hoisted on his own petard -ed.]

Another despicable US crime in Iraq banned on tape Video By: Seele on: 13.08.2008

FBI Evidence that Indicts George W. Bush for Mass Murder, War Crimes and Torture PDF Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy

NEW REPORT: ABU GHRAIB PRISONERS PACKED IN ICE WATER-FILLED GARBAGE CANS AND SENT INTO SHOCK, MILITARY POLICE SAY PDF Sherwood Ross March 17, 2008

Using technology to promote war crimes PDF December 17, 2007 - Mobile Labs to Target Iraqis for Death

Blackwater in Baghdad: "It was a horror movie" PDF By Jennifer Daskal Dec. 14, 2007

"We Are Living Through Another Hiroshima," Iraq Doctor Says PDF by Sherwood Ross , Op Ed November 21, 2007

APR - The killing of Civilians in Tikrit PDF 03 November 2007

Mukasey Won’t Say Waterboarding Is Torture But in 1947 the U.S. Called It a War Crime, Sentenced Enemy Officer to 15 Years Hard Labor PDF by Jon Ponder | Oct. 29, 2007

Blackwater bodyguards promised immunity PDF AP Oct. 29, 2007 - Blackwater opened fire, killing 17 Iraqis in an unprovoked attack.

Is the United States Killing 10,000 Iraqis Every Month? Or Is It More? PDF by Michael Schwartz 9 July 2007

U.S. Aims To Lure Insurgents With 'Bait' PDF By Josh White and Joshua Partlow Washington Post September 24, 2007

A deafening silence on report of one million Iraqis killed under US occupation PDF By Patrick Martin 17 September 2007

Marines Ordered To Execute Civilians In Nazi-Like Slaughter PDF Steve Watson Infowars.ne August 30, 2007

Again US executing an unarmed Iraqi civilian -> one more US crime caught on videotape
By: Seele on: 15.07.2007

US fires on hospital for fun, baby nearly killed Video Inside Sadr-City May 21, 2007

US Chopper Kills Seven Iraqi Children PDF Baghdad, May 8, 2007

Americans imprison nine-year-old boy as hostage PDF by Iraqi Resistance Report 04.04.2007

Proof of US orchestration of death squads’ killings in Iraq PDF By Max Fuller Online Journal Guest Writer Mar 22, 2007

US officer "upset" Iraqi suspects taken alive, court hears PDF Mar 14, 2007 - they had been told to kill all military-aged males

Occupation forces and death militias executed eight children in “AL-Samra” village PDF Roads to Iraq February 4, 2007

New details of Haditha killings emerge PDF January 6, 2007

Cornered US Military Takes to Desperate Tactics in Iraq PDF by Dahr Jamail December 10, 2006

Photos confirm US raid child deaths PDF DECEMBER 09, 2006

War Crimes Caught on Video Video September 29, 2006

Bombing a Mosque Video November 26, 2006

DRUNK Americans New MASSACRE In Heet PDF November 09, 2006

ITN Terry 'killed by U.S.' Boss claims MoD 'cover-up' PDF By Don Mackay 4 October 2006

US troops greet new school year by abducting elementary school children of Resistance fighters PDF By: Muhammad Abu Nasr on: 30.09.2006

The US Occupation forces in Iraq throw Iraqi detainees in the streets after lacerating theirs faces and killing them PDF Al Moharer September 4, 2006

U.S. sniper kills family of four in Ramadi – witnesses PDF Ramadi, Aug 31, 2006

Investigator: Troops drank, golfed before Iraqi killings, rape PDF August 7, 2006

G.I.'s Say Officers Ordered Killing of Young Iraqi Men PDF By PAUL von ZIELBAUER August 3, 2006

Soldiers Say Ordered to Kill Young Men PDF By ALICIA A. CALDWELL Jul 21,2006

When Torture Isn't Good Enough PDF Booman Tribune July 14, 2006

Her face PDF by Joseph Cannon, Cannonfire - Abir Hamza, the victim of that vicious assault, was born in 1991. She was only 14 when a squad of all-American "Christian" good-old-boys killed her family, raped her, and burned her body.

New 'Iraq massacre' tape emerges PDF - a report filed by Iraqi police accused US troops of rounding up and deliberately shooting 11 people in the house, including five children and four women, before blowing up the building.

'I Pretended to be Dead' : Girl, 12, Sole Survivor When Marines Executed Her Family (With Video) PDF - War Crime Video

Photos Indicate Civilians Slain Execution-Style PDF By Tony Perry and Julian E. Barnes, Times Staff Writers May 27, 2006 - a 9-year-old girl, Eman Waleed, said that she saw Marines kill her grandparents and that other adults in the house died shielding her and her 8-year-old brother.

Breaking: Eyewitnesses to the Haditha massacre!!! PDF by EZ writer May 26, 2006 - The girls killed inside Khafif's house alone were aged 14, 10, 5, 3 and 1, according to death certificates.

Easily Dispensable: Iraq's Children PDF By Dahr Jamail 5-22-6

Video of Ex -US soldier: 'If he didn't answer the way we liked, we would shoot his youngest kid in the head' (Local .MOV File) [Right-click to save] May 21, 2006

Iraq Sunnis accuse US of "atrocity" over raids PDF 15 May 2006

How Massacres Become the Norm PDF By Dahr Jamail t r u t h o u t | Perspective 04 April 2006 - An AP video of the scene shows male bodies tangled together in a bloody mass on the floor of the Imams' living quarters - all of them with shotgun wounds and other bullet holes. The tape also shows shell casings of the caliber used by the US military scattered about on the floor. An official from the al-Sadr political bloc reported that American forces had surrounded the hospital where the wounded were taken for treatment after the massacre.

When is Killing Arab Civilians Considered a Massacre? PDF By OMAR BARGHOUTI, Counterpunch March 29, 2006 - "American forces used helicopters to drop troops on the house of Faiz Harat Khalaf situated in the Abu Sifa village of the Ishaqi district. The American forces gathered the family members in one room and executed 11 people, including five children, four women and two men, then they bombed the house, burned three vehicles and killed their animals."

Did American Marines murder 23 Iraqi civilians? PDF 27 March 2006

The Gruesome Reality of Operation Swarmer PDF Eman Ahmad Khamas, CommonDreams.org March 24, 2006

Photos: U.S. Soldiers Kill Children in Cowardly Attack PDF by combat Wednesday, Mar. 15, 2006

11 People, mostly women and chlidren, Killed in U.S. Raid north of Baghdad PDF By: ZIAD KHALAF, Associated Press Writer on: 15.03.2006

Beyond Abu Ghraib: Detention and Torture in Iraq PDF Amnesty International 6 March 2006

'14,000 detained without trial in Iraq' PDF Mike McDonough Monday March 6, 2006

U.S. invasion responsible deaths of over 250,000 civilians in Iraq PDF by John Stokes

British troops videoed 'beating Iraqis' PDF By: Jo Revill and Ned Temko on: 12.02.2006

"This is the face of American terrorism" PDF - Upon stealing the $10,000 that were in his coat pocket the troops that the Americans are so proud of and support, found that he did not have any weapons or explosives and then they dumped his body at the local hospital and walked away with his money.

British mercenary firm with Pentagon contracts exposed in civilian shooting incident in Iraq PDF

Whistleblower! - US Interrogator Confirms Routine Iraq Torture PDF Dailykos.com – November 28, 2005

Baghdad: Iraqi girls claim kidnapping by US soldiers PDF By: www.iha.com.tr on: 25.10.2005

Army officer reveals new allegations of detainee mistreatment in Iraq and Afghan PDFSeptember 24, 2005

Iraqi Police accuse Britons of planting bombs PDF By: Jonathan Finer and Omar Fekeiki on: 19.09.2005 [British troops get busted during a false flag operation. -ed.]

Tal Afar Residents Send Out SOS PDF - "The Americans are seemingly bombing the city with chemical weapons," he said, adding Tal Afar residents are speaking of suffocations and other health problems upon exposure to any hit area.

US Forces slaughter dozens of civilians in Iraq PDF By: Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey on: 01.09.2005

ar-Ramadi Massacre - 23 dead, Nineteen killed instantly, including 7 children

15 Iraqis dead after US gunfire: doctor PDF

Who Murdered 32 Iraqi Children? (Truth Comes Out) PDF By: Layth on: 17.07.2005

US Troops plant weapons on civilian kills in order to claim they are insurgents PDF Jun 25, 2005

U.S. Used NAPALM In Iraq and LIED About It *PIC* PDF

Sick strategies for senseless slaughter PDF by John Kaminski

U.S. forces abuse and torture female detainees in Iraq 4/18/2005

Army Probe Finds Abuse at Jail Near Mosul The Associated Press Saturday 26 March 2005

Iraqi doctor: US troops storm hospital Sunday 27 March 2005 - The assistant director also said US troops raided Ramadi and Haditha general hospitals a few days ago, and questioned whether doctors had become military targets and if the raids were aimed at closing hospitals.

Britain's Abu Ghraib -- BBC correspondent Paul Adams [Photos]

US troops kill Iraqi civilians PDF Sun Jan 9, 2005 - "Why did these poor people have to die?" lamented Baghdad taxi driver Doraid Abdul Khaliq, 28. "Bombing, shooting and running a tank over cars have all become something normal."

Reporter: Wounded Iraqi Made No Movements Monday November 22, 2004 - ``Through my viewfinder I can see him (Marine) raise the muzzle of his rifle in the direction of the wounded Iraqi. There are no sudden movements, no reaching or lunging,'' Sites writes.

US soldier shoots Bengal tiger in Baghdad zoo 11/11/2004 - The "insurgent" in this case was a defenseless Bengal Tiger, locked up in its cage, shot dead by a drunken American soldier. What fun. What a brave soldier.

Iraq transfers war crimes? UPI - Tuesday, October 26, 2004 - The Washington Post reported Sunday that the CIA secretly transferred a dozen non-Iraqi prisoners out of Iraq in the past 18 months.

The Secret File of Abu Ghraib By OSHA GRAY DAVIDSON - A slide presentation in the classified files spells out the new "Interrogation Rules of Engagement," specifying that soldiers, with proper approval, may subject prisoners to dietary manipulation, sleep deprivation, stress positions and the "presence of mil working dogs."

Iraqi group claims over 37,000 civilian toll By Ahmed Janabi Saturday 31 July 2004 - Our study is the result of two months of hard work which involved hundreds of Iraqi activists and academics. Of course there may be deaths that were not reported to us, but the toll in any case could not be lower than our finding," said Muhammad al-Ubaidi.

UK troops held torture contests, Iraqi claims KAREN MCVEIGH - A HOTEL worker who says he witnessed British troops beating his friend to death in Iraq spoke yesterday of being subjected to "torture competitions" at the hands of the army.

3,000 held in America's global gulag PDF - In Syria, detainees sent by Washington are held at "the Palestine wing" of the main intelligence headquarters and a series of jails in Damascus and other cities. Egypt has also received a steady flow of militants from American installations.

Soldier's defense team wants 100 witnesses from Cheney on down for Abu Ghraib case Sunday, June 13, 2004 By Cindi Lash and Michael A. Fuoco - By putting top government officials like Vice President Dick Cheney on their witness list, England's attorneys are serving notice that in defending their client, they will attempt to put on trial the Bush administration's policies on intelligence gathering from detainees.

Torture and Rumors of Torture June 10, 2004 - "[Hersh] said he had seen all the Abu Ghraib pictures. He said, 'You haven't begun to see evil...' then trailed off. He said, 'horrible things done to children of women prisoners, as the cameras run.' He looked frightened."

Sanchez Authorized Torture at Abu Ghraib t r u t h o u t | 06.13.04 - Sanchez decided on Oct. 12 to remove several items on the list and to require that prison officials obtain his direct approval for the remaining high-pressure methods.

New Report Documents Extensive U.S. War Crimes In Iraq...
Purported "Transfer of Sovereignty" Condemned as Farce, Despite UN Resolution

CA Guardsman alleges detainee abuse in Iraq Published on Thursday, June 10, 2004 - Sgt. Greg Ford said he repeatedly had to revive prisoners who had passed out, and once saw a soldier stand on the back of a handcuffed detainee's neck and pull his arms until they popped out of their sockets.

Use Of Dogs In Abuse Scandal Authorized: Report WASHINGTON, June 11, 2004 - two dog handlers at Abu Ghraib were "having a contest" to see how many detainees they could make involuntarily urinate out of fear of the dogs

Ignoring Iraqi Death Toll Labelled a Holocaust Denial Gideon Polya. - His startling estimate is that, for Iraq, excess mortality and infant mortality are “currently of the order of 100,000 per year, or about 300 per day”.

John Howard, George Bush: war criminals Rohan Pearce - “Gonzales said he feared `prosecutors and independent counsels who may in the future decide to pursue unwarranted charges’ based on a 1996 U.S. law that bars `war crimes,’ which were defined to include `any grave breach’ of the Geneva Conventions.”

War Crimes: What Secrets Can the Photos Reveal? By Steve Weissman t r u t h o u t | Perspective Tuesday 25 May 2004 - According to intelligence sources that Sy Hersh quoted in the New Yorker, Rumsfeld turned to a super-secret Special Access Program, or SAP, which was in the business of killing or capturing al-Qaeda suspects all over the world, and where possible, interrogating them using Stress and Duress techniques banned by the Geneva Conventions. Now the covert operators would bring the same techniques to Abu Ghraib.

New Details of Prison Abuse Emerge By Scott Higham and Joe Stephens Washington Post Friday 21 May 2004 - Hilas also said he witnessed an Army translator having sex with a boy at the prison. He said the boy was between 15 and 18 years old. Someone hung sheets to block the view, but Hilas said he heard the boy's screams and climbed a door to get a better look. Hilas said he watched the assault and told investigators that it was documented by a female soldier taking pictures.

'US soldiers started to shoot us, one by one' Rory McCarthy in Ramadi Friday May 21, 2004 - "We went out of the house and the American soldiers started to shoot us. They were shooting low on the ground and targeting us one by one," she said.

`They didn't even spare one child' Air strike kills families in their beds U.S. maintains target was hideout SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI

U.S. kills 40 Iraqis, at wedding party PDF The Associated Press May 19, 2004 [At least they won't be tortured in prison. -ed.]

Congress hiding soldiers' photos of torture - The worst he said was a picture of man pleading with the soldiers as they laughed and held knife to his genitals...no wonder why the won't let people see them.

Danish medics reported seeing tortured Iraqis 15.05.2004

Iraqi In Custody Tortured To Death - Employees of the Forensic Pathology Institute in Baghdad confirm that among the bodies that the International Red Cross has handed over to them on behalf of the Americans there are always victims of torture.

Oz Contractor Says Abuse In Iraq Is FAR Worse Released Photos Are 'Tame' ABC News - Australia 5-14-4

Gen.: Interrogation may have violated Geneva Conventions (PDF) BY ANNE Q. HOY WASHINGTON BUREAU May 13, 2004 - After several rounds of similar questioning, Wolfowitz proclaimed "not humane" the practice of forcing a prisoner to crouch naked for 45 minutes or forcing him to stand with a bag over his head for 72 hours.

War Crimes Have Doomed the Occupation by Mark LeVine - the U.S. crosses the line between "merely" violating international humanitarian law (specifically articles 17 through 19 of the 4th Geneva Convention) and the commission of actual war crimes.

State Department Criticism of Torture in Countries to Which Detainees Have Allegedly Been Rendered - unnamed official was quoted as saying, "We don't kick the [expletive] out of them. We send them to other countries so they can kick the [expletive] out of them."

UK forces taught torture methods David Leigh Saturday May 8, 2004 - The US commander in charge of military jails in Iraq, Major General Geoffrey Miller, has confirmed that a battery of 50-odd special "coercive techniques" [Read torture] can be used against enemy detainees.

U.S. Military Sees Iraqis As "Under-People": British Officer - The officer, who agreed to the interview on the condition of anonymity, said that part of the problem was that American troops viewed Iraqis as untermenschen - the Nazi expression for "sub-humans".

US general suggests military intelligence had role in abuses Posted: 02 May 2004 - The Times quotes Karpinski as saying she believed military commanders were trying to shift the blame exclusively to her and other reservists and away from intelligence officers still at work in Iraq.

Meltdown in Iraq by George Hunsinger - Writing in the respected Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Orit Shoat summed up:
"During the first two weeks of [April], the American army committed war crimes in Fallujah on a scale unprecedented for this war. . . . Some 600 Iraqis were killed during these two weeks [estimates are now at 800 - G.H.], among them some 450 elderly people, women and children. . . . According to the organization Doctors Without Borders, U.S. Marines even occupied the hospitals and prevented hundreds of the wounded from receiving medical treatment. Snipers fired from the rooftops at anyone who tried to approach."

Troops 'have been abusing Iraqis for a year': Amnesty By Marian Wilkinson - A CIA officer told the Herald that "one prisoner . . . who we were talking to did die". And the former US officer responsible for the jail, Brigadier-General Janis Karpinski, reiterated that the cell blocks where the abuses took place were under the control of military intelligence when the prisoners were subjected to beating, rape, sexually humiliation and torture. [Gee, I wonder how many CIA/Mossad officers will go on trial over this? -ed.]

French TV screens images 'of US helicopter crew killing Iraqis' PARIS, May 4 [The link to the video is available for viewing in our Movies & Multimedia Section -ed.]

Horrific New Evidence of Soldiers' Brutality in Iraq By Raymond Whitaker, Andy McSmith and Andrew Johnson Independent U.K. Sunday 02 May 2004 - Gen Taguba's report makes it clear that far from being isolated actions by low-level personnel,intelligence interrogators encouraged the military police to "soften up" detainees. [These "intelligence" interrogators are the private mercenary soldiers employed by the Pentagon there. They include personnel from companies like Blackwater, CACI, Titan and others. -ed.]

Abuse Of Iraqi Prisoners Probed April 28, 2004 by CBS News

Pictures from last year of similar abuse of Iraqi prisoners

Radiation In Iraq Equals 250,000 Nagasaki Bombs By Bob Nichols dissidentvoice.org 3-31-4 - When the uranium bullets, missiles, or bombs hit something or explode most of the radioactive uranium turns instantly to very, very small dust particles, too fine to even see. When US Troopers or Iraqis breathe even a tiny amount into their lungs, as little as One Gram, it is the same as getting an X-Ray every hour for the rest of their shortened life.

TV shows US army kill injured Iraqis 28.02.2004 - An international law professor, Stefan Oeter, confirmed that the shooting of a wounded person is a war crime. The Pentagon has refused to comment on the German investigation.

'They were kicking us, laughing. It was a great pleasure for them' Rory McCarthy in Basra Saturday February 21, 2004 - Troops searched the building and arrested the staff, driving them off to a British military base in Basra, southern Iraq. It was only a formality and the men would be released shortly, they said. Four days later Baha was dead.

Iraqi women, children in US custody By Ahmed Janabi - "Surrender, we have your wife", this threatening note has been found at the homes of many Iraqis.

Drowned Iraqi 'was forced into river by five US soldiers' 14.02.2004 - Zeidun Fadhil and his cousin Marwan Fadhil were allegedly taken to a remote spot on the shore and ordered into the river at gunpoint. When they refused, the soldiers were said to have forced them into the river. Zeidun, who could not swim, drowned in the strong current. His cousin survived to tell the story.

Britain Faces ICC Investigation Into Use of Cluster Bombs by Tracy Kramer - Jan 21 - The report alleges that the use of cluster bombs and bunker-buster missiles during the conflict was contrary to international law. At a press conference Tuesday one of the lawyers, Professor Bill Bowring of London Metropolitan University, said, "There is a considerable amount of evidence of disproportionate use of force causing civilian casualties."

U.S. Is Violating Accord on POWs by Leon Friedman - So the prisoner-of-war designation is meaningless, just a charade to hide our own failure to abide by international law in other areas. We are just saying to the world community: "See, we abide by international treaties - once in a while."

Living by the Fence by Jo Wilding - The November 2003 study by the Uranium Medical Research Committee (UMRC) said: "Witnesses living next to the airport report 3,000 civilians were incinerated by one morning's attack from aerial bursts of thermobaric and fuel air bombs. Since the cessation of the main phase of battle, several of the Baghdad area battlefields. [were] landscaped by the US forces and Iraqi contractors, thus preventing a thorough examination."

Fallujah

Article 6(b) of the 1945 Nuremberg Charter defines a Nuremberg War Crime in relevant part as the ". . . wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages. . ." According to this definitive definition, the Bush Jr. administration's destruction of Fallujah constitutes a war crime for which Nazis were tried and executed.

From Obliterating Fallujah

Iraq doctor brings evidence of US napalm at Fallujah PDF By Andra Jackson May 23, 2006

A War Crime Within A War Crime Within A War Crime PDF By: GEORGE MONBIOT on: 22.11.2005

Fallujah Revisited PDF By Dahr Jamail 11-14-5 - "These exploded on the ground with large fires that burnt for half an hour. They used these near the train tracks. You could hear these dropped from a large airplane and the bombs were the size of a tank. When anyone touched those fires, their body burned for hours."

US used white phosphorus in Iraq PDF 16 November 2005

Fallujah - The Hidden Massacre Movie - Veteran admits: Bodies melted away before us.

The fog of war: white phosphorus, Fallujah and some burning questions PDF 15 November 2005

In Fallujah, U.S. Declares War on Hospitals, Ambulances PDF by Brian Dominick Nov 9, 2004 - Saturday morning, witnesses in Fallujah reported that an overnight air strike by US fighter crews had completely razed a trauma clinic, which was recently constructed using Saudi donations. Also destroyed were two adjacent facilities used by health care providers.

US snipers kill 17 doctors and nurses on their way to help the people of Fallujah PDF

US Troops Reportedly Gassing Fallujah FALLUJAH, November 10 - “The US occupation troops are gassing resistance fighters and confronting them with internationally-banned chemical weapons,” resistance sources told Al-Quds Press Wednesday, November 10.

US BOMBED FALLUJA HOSPITAL SO THAT WORLD WOULD NOT GET REPORTS OF CIVILIAN CASUALTIES
Posted Nov 8, 2004 - It is a war crime to deliberately destroy civilian medical facilities. The hospital was shut down because doctors told people how many innocents were killed by the American assault, thus making it a military target. Any pretence of civilization is now gone.

Marine's graphic interview describes killing of prisoners in Iraq PDF By: Tony Perry on: 17.07.2008

US Army Admits Use of White Phosphorus as Weapon PDF by Steven D Wed Nov 09, 2005

The second battle of Fallujah: PDF The Commander of Fallujah attack, Major General Natonski, is an avid Zionist and considers Fallujah, and it's Muslim inhabitants, a cancer.

US offers to turn on water, electricity, provide welfare if residents inform on Resistance fighters PDF

Journalists tell of US Falluja killings Thursday 17 March 2005 - The picture they are painting is of US soldiers killing whole families, including children, attacks on hospitals and doctors, the use of napalm-like weapons and sections of the city destroyed.

IRAQ: US used chemical weapons in Fallujah assault - The US military used internationally banned chemical weapons, including nerve gas, during their assault on the Iraqi city of Fallujah last November, Dr Khalid ash Shaykhli, an Iraqi health ministry official, told a March 3 Baghdad press conference.

Napalm Raid on Falluja? by GIULIANA SGRENA - 73 charred bodies -- women and children -- were found da "il manifesto" 23 November 2004 AL JAZEERA

U.S. Used Mustard gas, Nerve gas, and Burning Chemicals on Iraqis in Fallujah Saturday 5th March 2005

Stories from Fallujah By Dahr Jamail Iraq Dispatches Tuesday 08 February 2005 - The hatred now of Fallujans against every American is incredible, and you cannot blame them.

US Troops Covering Up Chem Weapons In Fallujah? By Dahr Jamail 1-19-5 - "At least two kilometers of soil were removed," he explained, "Exactly as they did at Baghdad Airport after the heavy battles there during the invasion and the Americans used their special weapons."

Fallujah Delegation Delivers Memorandum To UN On US Crimes

Obliterating Fallujah By FRANCIS A. BOYLE November 15, 2004

An Eyewitness Account of Fallujah December 25, 2004 Author: Dahr Jamai - “I entered Fallujah near the Julan Quarter, which is near the General Hospital,” he said during an interview in Baghdad, “There were American snipers on top of the hospital shooting everyone.” [We hear this same report over and over again from multiple sources. -ed.]

U.S. using chemical weapons against civilians: Iraqi leader By Aniket Alam - Mr. Azawi claimed that Iraqi resistance had discovered and identified mass graves of occupation soldiers in Iraq. "They are hiding their dead." This massive loss of personnel was forcing the U.S. Army to mobilise another 40,000 troops in Iraq, he said.

IRAQ - Poison gases were used in U.S. assault, say Fallujans - He said he had seen elderly women carrying white flags shot by U.S. soldiers. “Even the wounded people were killed. The Americans made announcements for people to come to one mosque if they wanted to leave Fallujah, and even the people who went there carrying white flags were killed.”

Falluja Atrocities Expose True Face of U.S. War by Joseph Nevins CommonDreams.org December 10, 2004 - A clinic doctor stated that American snipers killed many civilians, the youngest a four-year-old boy. An Associated Press photographer described U.S. helicopters shooting people trying to ford a river to safety. Among those slain was a family of five.

Furore over report U.S. Military eliminated medical workers Big News Network.com Monday 6th December, 2004 On November 26 Naomi Klein wrote in London's Guardian newspaper, "In Iraq, US forces and their Iraqi surrogates are no longer bothering to conceal attacks on civilian targets and are openly eliminating anyone - doctors, clerics, journalists - who dares to count the bodies."

You asked for my evidence, Mr Ambassador. Here it is In Iraq, the US does eliminate those who dare to count the dead Naomi Klein Saturday December 4, 2004

US army blocks aid convoy for Falluja Tuesday 30 November 2004 - "They told me that there is a crime in there; chemical weapons are being used. The corpses don't have traces of gunshots but black patches.

FALLUJAH NAPALMED By Paul Gilfeather Political Editor Sunday Mirror Nov 28 2004 - News that President George W. Bush has sanctioned the use of napalm, a deadly cocktail of polystyrene and jet fuel banned by the United Nations in 1980, will stun governments around the world.

U.S. uses napalm gas in Fallujah – Witnesses - Residents in Fallujah reported that innocent civilians have been killed by napalm attacks, a poisonous cocktail of polystyrene and jet fuel which makes the human body melt.

ANOTHER WAR CRIME Posted Nov 22, 2004 - Take a close look at these dead bodies. Many have been stripped to the waist, and the body on the right is clearly wearing handcuffs. Since one does not handcuff an already dead man, we may conclude that this invidual at least met his death while already a prisoner of war.

SPEAKING OF WAR CRIMES - A Marine is heard saying that one of the wounded Iraqis was pretending to be dead. In response, a fellow Marine is seen aiming his rifle point-blank at the Iraqi, shooting him in the head, and casually remarking, "Well, he's dead now".

Iraqi Physican Confirms US Chem Weapons Use In Fallujah By Omar al-Faris - JUS Jihad Unspun 11-18-4 - The Mujahideen inflicted heavy losses on the US forces in al-Fallujah prompting the Americans to employ chemical weapons for the first time since the fall of Baghdad.

US denies need for Falluja aid convoy Rory McCarthy in Baghdad Monday November 15, 2004

US Troops Shot Civilians Escaping From Fallujah Sun Nov 14, 2004 - "I decided to swim ... but I changed my mind after seeing U.S. helicopters firing on and killing people who tried to cross the river."
He watched horrified as a family of five was shot dead as they tried to cross.

Denial Of Water To Iraqi Cities 11-14-4

Fallujah: History in the making - Who knows what the Americans will get up to during their bloody and violent onslaught. When I was there in April, American snipers shot a 10 year old boy in the head - I watched him die as his brave, innocent parents screamed in agony and grief, but insisted we film their dear little son's last moments.
I saw 2 middle aged women die - they had gone out of their homes to the shops, believing there to be a ceasefire and were shot at by American snipers - one died clutching a white flag.

Fallujah : America's Guernica by Hector Carreon La Voz de Aztlan - Fallujah today is America's Guernica and the USA media is covering up the criminal murderous military operation under way. In addition there is absolutely no outcry from the USA political establishment. This points to a deep spiritual and moral malaise among Americans and decay in the leadership of the USA.

'Scores of civilians' killed in Falluja Tuesday 09 November 2004 - Overnight US bombardments hit a clinic inside the Sunni Muslim city, killing doctors, nurses and patients, residents said. US military authorities denied the reports. [Of course they denied it, it's a war crime! -ed.]

Collective Punishment Attack on Fallujah

The Attack on Fallujah in April, 2004 is Collective Punishment for the killing of the 4 mercenary soldiers earlier and is taken right out of the playbook of Israeli tactics. It is also a war crime!

Check out the Coalition Of The Killing At War With Independent Reporters section also.

Fleeing Fallujans killed as crisis deepens Thursday 29 April 2004 - Fallujans burn new Iraqi flag and curse US occupation US soldiers have fired on a minibus full of civilians near a checkpoint on the outskirts of the besieged Iraqi town of Falluja.

Report from Baghdad -- Hospital Closings and U.S. War Crimes Monday, April 19, 2004 by Rahul Mahajan - Baghdad, Iraq -- “Why do you keep asking about the closing of the Fallujah hospital?” my Iraqi translator asks in exasperation. I explain that this is big news, and it hasn’t really been reported in English. He looks at me, incredulous; all Iraqis know about it.

Fallujah Residents Report U.S. Forces Engaged in Collective Punishment by Dahr Jamail - Abu Muher said US warplanes were bombing the city heavily last Saturday prior to his departure, and that Marine snipers continued to take their toll, shot after shot, on residents of the besieged city. "There were so many snipers, anyone leaving their house was killed," he recalled.

An Eyewitness Account: An Iraqi Physician in Fallujah Date Wednesday,Apr 21 ,2004 - More than 800 civilians were killed. Most of them were children, women and old people, because the jet fighthers and the helicopters targeted mosques, houses, and even health centers.

GET OUT NOW, BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!! By John Pilger April 17, 2004 The New Statesman - In Fallujah, US marines, described as "tremendously precise" by their psychopathic spokes- man, slaughtered up to 600 people, according to hospital directors.

Iraqi 'beaten to death' by US troops April 14, 2004 - US troops beat him with truncheons because he refused to remove a picture of wanted Shiite Muslim leader Moqtada Sadr from his car, police said today.

Iraq Solidarity Action – Resist the Massacre in Falluga - The Americans are dropping cluster bombs and new mortars, which jump 3-4 metres. They are bombing from the air. There are people lying dead in the streets. They said there’d be a ceasefire and then they flew in, I saw them, and they began to bomb.

Plea to lift siege as toll mounts Thursday 08 April 2004 - US helicopters and snipers are firing on ambulances and civilian vehicles trying to take the wounded to clinics or the hospital, the correspondent said.

Baghdad Burning Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - Falloojeh has been cut off from the rest of Iraq for the last three days. It's terrible. They've been bombing it constantly and there are dozens dead. Yesterday they said that the only functioning hospital in the city was hit by the Americans and there's no where to take the wounded except a meager clinic that can hold up to 10 patients at a time.

Scores dead as Falluja resists US onslaught Wednesday 07 April 2004 - "The situation is getting worse," he said. "An ambulance carrying casualties was attacked on its way to the medical centre.
The American forces closed the road leading to the city's hospital and everybody walking in the streets of Falluja is now becoming a target.

Dedication

This Is The Cost Of Blair's 'Moral' War By John Pilger

March 13, 2003: This week, the [British] Ministry of Defense said: "We never target civilians [in the no-fly zones]... there's no evidence of civilian casualties."

The lie of this statement would be breathtaking were it not routine.

In northern Kurdish Iraq, I interviewed members of one family who had lost their grandfather, their father and four brothers and sisters when a "coalition" aircraft (British or American) dive-bombed them and the sheep they were tending. It was open desert, a moonscape with not a sign of other life, let alone a military installation. Amid the carcasses of blasted sheep were pieces of clothing and a single shoe.

The attack was investigated and verified by the chief United Nations representative in Iraq at the time, Hans Von Sponeck, who drove there especially from Baghdad. His findings are listed among dozens of similar attacks - on shepherds, farmers, fishermen - in a document prepared by the United Nations Security Section.

At a windswept cemetery near the town of Mosul, I caught sight of the shepherd's widow as she grieved for her husband and four children. "I want to see the pilot who did this," she shouted.

LAST week, [Week of March 9th, 2003] "coalition" aircraft killed another six people in the southern city of Basra. Nothing unusual there. When I was last in Basra, an American missile killed six children when it "mistakenly" hit Al Jumohria, a very poor section of Basra's residential area.

I walked down the street where the missile had struck in the early hours; it had followed the line of houses, destroying one after the other. I met the father of two sisters, aged eight and 10, who were photographed by a local weddings photographer, Nabil al-Jerani, shortly after the attack. Their bodies were unlike the other four children, who were blown to bits, their limbs and flesh in the overhead wires.

These two little girls were left intact. In Nabil's photographs, they are in their nightdresses, one with a bow in her hair, their bodies perfectly engraved in the rubble of their homes, where they had been bombed to death, murdered, in their beds.

British bombing raids were illegal, says Foreign Office PDF Michael Smith June 19, 2005

Ameriya Shelter: A cruise missile with a DU [DEPLETED URANIUM] warhead hit the shelter on February 13, 1991. The 403 people, mostly children were burned alive inside the shelter. The shelter is being preserved as a memorial. [This was a deliberate attack on the Ameriya bomb shelter on the outskirts of Baghdad in Iraq] More "shock" and "awe" follows:

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"The Geneva Convention makes it illegal for prisoners of war to be shown and pictured and humiliated. And it is something that the United States does not do."

--Donald Rumsfeld March 23, 2003

(No, you just parade them around naked in public parks)

Read article here PDF

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"We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their leaders are on trial is not that they lost the war, but that they started it. And we must not allow ourselves to be drawn into a trial of the causes of the war, for our position is that no grievances or policies will justify resort to aggressive war. It is utterly renounced and condemned as an instrument of policy."

- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel L. Jackson, America's senior representative at the 1945 Nuremberg war crimes trials, and the tribunal's chief prosecutor.

The list of war crimes that the Bush administration has committed is growing. It is time that people and nations from all over the world rise up and demand that those guilty of war crimes be brought to trial.

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USA Drops Out Of Geneva Convention by Jack Duggan

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Resident Bush invaded Iraq without U.N. backing, with the coalition of the killing. America suceeded in achieving 'Rogue nation' status. The indictment of the German Nazi leaders at the 1945-1949 Nuremberg War Crimes Trials was precisely for carrying out preemptive military strikes against neighboring countries. They were tried and convicted of "planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances”. Bush, Blair and Howard are you listening?

Again, why George W. Bush must be tried as a war criminal by Bob Fitrakis April 20, 2004 - 72 days after 9/11, Bush gave Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld the orders to draw up the secret war plans. Once enacted, these plans made George W. Bush a war criminal, just like the Nazi generals at Nuremberg.

Chirac: US and UK violated international law Iraq-France, Politics, 3/22/2003 - The French President Jacque Chirac [said] yesterday in Brussels that the US and Britain have violated international law by declaring war against Iraq without the consent of the United Nations (UN).

GENERAL ARTICLES

US accused of using neutron bombs PDF Al Jazeera April 9, 2007

War Crimes: Bush, Blair, Howard attacked at summit PDF Global Research, February 5, 2007 Reuters

Guantanamo detainees didn’t commit suicide- They were subject to torture PDF 6/21/2006

In Palestine, a War on Children PDF by John Pilger June 15, 2006 - While the Israelis fire missiles at Palestinian picnickers and homes in Gaza and the West Bank, the two governments (which are really one, Isramerica) are to starve them. The victims will be mostly children.

British-trained police in Iraq 'killed prisoners with drills' PDF By Francis Elliott, Raymond Whitaker and Kim Sengupta Published: 20 November 2005

Proof Blair was told war could be ruled illegal - the full 13 pages of advice drawn up by Attorney General Lord Goldsmith stated the war was likely to be challenged under international law on a number of counts.

Sexual abuses by female interrogators at Guantanamo - Lawyers 3/10/2005

We sanction what we used to condemn By Bob Cesca January 22, 2005

Congress killed measures to ban U.S. use of torture By Douglas Jehl and David Johnston The New York Times Friday, January 14, 2005

IN GUANTANAMO'S TORTURE CHAMBERS Prisoners were experimented on BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD-Special for Granma International - David Hicks, one of the few detainees to have been formally charged and who was provided with lawyers given his status as an Australian citizen, recently disclosed in a sworn affidavit, made public in his country, that he was forcibly injected with drugs.

Guantánamo torture and humiliation still going on, says shackled Briton Vikram Dodd and Clare Dyer Saturday December 11, 2004 The Guardian

Uncle Sam has his own gulag Behaving like the Soviet secret police won't make America safer, Eric Margolis says. Sun, December 5, 2004 - According to the report's allegations, many tortures perfected by the Cheka (Soviet secret police) -- notably beating, freezing, sensory disorientation, and sleep deprivation -- are now routinely being used by U.S. interrogators.

Group to file war crimes suit against U.S. over Abu Ghraib abuse in German courts By John Byrne | 11/29/2004 - Lawyers acting for a U.S. advocacy group will file war crimes charges in Germany against senior U.S. administration officials for their alleged role in torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

Should Canada indict Bush? THOMAS WALKOM Nov. 16, 2004 - War crimes also specifically include any breach of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, such as torture, degradation, wilfully depriving prisoners of war of their rights "to a fair and regular trial," launching attacks "in the knowledge that such attacks will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians" and deportation of persons from an area under occupation.

Churchill And Hitler From Jason Collett 8-16-4 - Churchill himself ordered the firebomb raid on the city of Dresden (David Irving The Destruction of Dresden (1966) pp. 96-100), Alexander McKee, Dresden 1945 (1982) p 300, 306, 310) in the last months of the war, producing the most spectacular deliberate firestorm in the history of Europe. This action was probably the major war crime committed in Europe. Dresden was not in any way a military target, and was packed with refugees fleeing the advancing Russians, mainly women and children and the elderly who were unfit to fight.

America Used UN Veto to Protect Israeli War Crimes – 24 Times! Hypocrisy? You don’t know the half of it… Joe Vialls, 14 March 2003

Global Eye: Down by Law By Chris Floyd - Bush and his warlords knew they were constructing a blatantly criminal operation; why else dig up legal dodges to shield the top conspirators from prosecution?

Has the U.S. Government Committed War Crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq? By Robert Higgs* May 23, 2004 [Do birds fly? -ed.]

U.S. Tries to Get Off the Hook on War Crimes Report, HRW, 22 May 2004

Amnesty demands US 'war crimes' inquiry May 8, 2004 - "Amnesty International urges the US government to investigate the allegations at Abu Ghraib prison, Iraq, and other detention facilities to establish whether war crimes have been committed and ensure accountability at the highest level," it said. [That would be the Commander and Chief -ed.]

Guantanamo Britons were 'chained to the floor and beaten' By Sandra Laville and Nick Britten (Filed: 13/03/2004) - Jamal Udeen, 37, from Manchester, outlined a brutal regime of oppression including being chained to the floor during 12-hour interrogations and having an unknown drug administered by injection.

Guantanamo detainees say US military tortured them By Robert Verkaik and Ian Herbert 13 March 2004 - "Tareq Dergoul has started to try to give his family and his solicitor Louise Christian an account of the horrific things which happened to him during detention at Bagram, Kandahar and Guantanamo Bay. This has included an account of botched medical treatment, interrogation at gunpoint, beatings and inhuman conditions."

My Hell in Camp X-Ray By Rosa Prince and Gary Jones The Mirror UK Friday 12 March 2004 - Now Jamal bears the scars of Guantanamo. He stoops into a hunch as he walks because the shackles that bound him were too short. As a punishment, inmates would be confined so tightly they would be forced to lie in a ball for hours. During lengthy interrogation, they would be tethered to a metal ring on the floor. Jamal said: "Sometimes you would be chained up on the floor with your hands and feet actually bound together. One of my friends told me he was kept like that for 15 hours once.

Released without charge 13.03.2004 - Held in captivity for two years, Harith also said he was assaulted with fists, feet, knees and batons after refusing a mystery injection.

Blair Accused Of War Crimes Charges Before ICC LONDON, March 2 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - A British anti-Iraq war group said Tuesday, March 2, it wants the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to consider whether Prime Minister Tony Blair officials should be tried for war crimes amid a political furor that the British attorney general was forced to rewrite his legal advice before the Iraq invasion.

The WWII Dresden Holocaust - Shrove Tuesday, February 13, 1945 'A Single Column Of Flame' 2-6-2 Approximately 500.000 children, women, the elderly, wounded soldiers and the animals of the zoo were slaughtered in one night.

Vietnam killing spree revelations shock US Useful link: Toledo Blade website Paul Harris in New York Sunday October 26, 2003 The Observer - For four days last week, The Blade ran its tale of the massacre of innocent Vietnamese civilians by a US Army unit called Tiger Force.

GIs razing homes of suspected Iraqi insurgents: Families say they were given 5 minutes to get out Tuesday, November 18, 2003 BY JEFF WILKINSON - U.S. troops are adopting tactics used by Israeli IDF soldiers on Palestinians which are outlawed by the Geneva Convention

Bush 'indicted' over war crimes - A group of Japanese lawyers unveiled documents Monday "indicting" U.S. President George W. Bush for war crimes allegedly committed against the Afghan people since the United States-led coalition began its antiterrorism campaign in Afghanistan in October 2001.

Britain tries to weaken UN deal on cluster bombs Owen Bowcott Thursday June 26, 2003 - British aircraft dropped 66 cluster bombs, each containing 147 bomblets, and fired 2,000 artillery shells which each contained 49 bomblets. US forces dropped around 1,200 cluster bombs.

Bush's Vietnam by John Pilger

No Impunity for War Crimes committed by U.S. Troops in Iraq! - Sign the petition!

US plans death camp PDF May 26, 2003 - Prisoners would be tried, convicted and executed without leaving its boundaries, without a jury and without right of appeal, The Mail on Sunday newspaper reported yesterday. [The Bush family has a history of setting up death camps. See the Dark History section for more.]

War crimes probe focuses on U.S. By IPS Apr 30, 2003 - The U.S. military has been condemned for using weapons such as cluster bombs and depleted uranium that have a devastating impact on civilians. It has also targeted known civilian sites and journalists’ offices. [None of the civilian deaths were justified in this illegal war. Each and every death to a civilian was in itself a war crime. And the deaths keep piling up and will for some time thanks to depleted uranium and military firing on civilians there in Iraq. -ed]

Iraqis target Gen. Franks for war crimes trial By Jeffrey T. Kuhner THE WASHINGTON TIMES - •The failure to prevent the mass looting of hospitals in Baghdad after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime.
•Eyewitness testimony of U.S. troops firing upon an ambulance.
•The indiscriminate shooting and wounding its driver by U.S. armored vehicles of civilians in Baghdad.
•The bombing of a marketplace in Baghdad that killed scores of civilians.
• The attack on a civilian bus with an "energy weapon" in the town of al-Hillah, killing at least 10 passengers.

Shocking Account Of Torture, Murder Told By “Illegal Combatant” May 08, 2003 Source: Daily Islam, Translated by JUS - In Cuba, torture, slapping and kicking during interrogation was a daily routine with FBI officials.

'George W. Bush, war criminal' By Bruce S. Ticker - If this isn't incriminating enough, Newsweek writer Jonathan Alter revealed that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld refused a request to airlift 3,000 military police from Europe to Iraq to protect the hospitals and museums, but this would have meant replacing them with reserves.

Journalists' union slams deaths in Iraq By Gareth Harding UPI Chief European Correspondent - The International Federation of Journalists on Tuesday accused U.S. and Iraqi forces of committing war crimes against reporters after five correspondents were killed around Baghdad in less than 24 hours.

U.S. Commander Franks Faces Belgium 'Genocide' Case Expatica.com Friday 18 April 2003 - BRUSSELS -- US Allied Forces Commander, General Tommy Franks, and a second, unnamed party, could face trial in Belgium for war crimes under the country's amended genocide law after four Belgian doctors lodged a complaint in Brussels.

War leaders may face war crimes charges Lawrence Smallman - The Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has said that any US-led attack on Iraq was illegal without UN Security Council backing. "In the absence of such Security Council authorisation, no country may use force against another country, except in self-defence against armed attack…This rule was enshrined in the United Nations Charter in 1946 for a good reason: to prevent states from using force as they felt so inclined," said ICJ Secretary-General Louise Doswald-Beck.

Why the UN must disarm the United States -- Rogue nation exposed! by Bob Fitrakis January 26, 2003

Children held at Camp Xray, US admits PDF - The commander of the joint task force at Guantanamo, Major General Geoffrey Miller, says more than one child under the age of 16 is at the detention centre.

Chemical hypocrites by George Monbiot - Among the weapons they are testing is fentanyl, the drug which turned the Moscow theatre into a gas chamber. Since March 2002, the government's "non-lethal weapons directorate" has been training the Marine Corps in the use of chemical weapons. All these activities break the convention.

America in the dock
The new International Criminal Court has been set up to bring dictators and war criminals to book. So why does the United States stand alone against Europe in opposing it By: Michael Byers 09 March 2003 - On Tuesday, Tony Blair's efforts to straddle the divide between Europe and America will become even more strained. With the swearing in of 18 judges, the International Criminal Court will come to life in the face of hostile opposition from the United States (which already has legislation on its books authorising the President to use military force to rescue any soldiers detained in The Hague). Many of Britain's European partners, including Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, count themselves among the strongest supporters of the new court.

Belgium amends law to avoid prosecuting President Bush - Critics of the law, including the United States, have warned Belgium that its role as host to international institutions like NATO and the European Union, would be threatened if a war crimes suit were filed against Bush. “It’s a serious problem,” said US Secretary of State Colin Powell, after he was named last week in a lawsuit for alleged crimes during the 1991 Gulf war along with former US president George Bush and current Vice President Dick Cheney.

I Was Only Following Orders Saturday, March 15 2003 - Just as some soldiers at My Lai refused to follow orders to kill women and children, one can only hope that some U.S. military personnel will refuse to follow orders to massacre Iraqi civilians.

Coalition of the willing? Make that war criminals February 26 2003 - The initiation of a war against Iraq by the self-styled "coalition of the willing" would be a fundamental violation of international law.

A Crime, Not a War By Marc Ash - This article shows the criminality on George W's war on Iraq

Afghanistan: The Nuclear Nightmare Starts By Davey Garland - The Bush civilian death toll mounts, more evidence of WMD used by the U.S.

US turns to torture to crack prisoners of war By Dana Priest and Barton Gellman

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