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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 |
THE JUSTICE ROBERT H. JACKSON CONFERENCE:
PLANNING FOR THE PROSECUTION OF HIGH LEVEL AMERICAN WAR CRIMINALS
September 13 - 14, 2008
Andover, Massachusetts
Registration details available here.
"The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the
punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who
possess themselves of great power and make deliberate and concerted use of
it to set in motion evils which leave no home in the world untouched."
EUObserver: "Poland has launched an internal probe into old allegations that it hosted a secret prison used by the CIA to move terrorist suspects around the world.
Revelations about the CIA's practice of snatching and torturing terrorist suspects illegally but with the consent of friendly governments round the world first broke in 2005.
A special European Parliament committee, in which Mr Pinior took part, found in February 2007 that 14 EU states including Poland allowed thousands of suspect US flights.
A report by the Council of Europe in Strasbourg in June 2007 said Poland and Romania housed CIA jails between 2003 and 2005, but failed to provide hard evidence.
Also in June, the New York Times quoted a CIA source saying the 'most important' of its 'black sites' in the years after 9/11 was in Szymany, some 160km north of Warsaw."
RawStory: "The CIA operated an interrogation and short-term detention facility for suspected terrorists within a Polish intelligence training school with the explicit approval of British and US authorities, according to British and Polish intelligence officials familiar with the arrangements.
Intelligence officials identify the site as a component of a Polish intelligence training school outside the northern Polish village of Stare Kiejkuty. While previously suspected, the facility has never been conclusively identified as being part of the CIA's secret rendition and detention program."
News: "Russian investigators say they have proof Georgian forces committed genocide in their attack on the rebel region of South Ossetia this month.
'It has been fully established that between August 7 and 12, Georgia's armed forces invaded the territory of the unrecognised republic with the aim of fully annihilating the Ossetian ethnic group living in South Ossetia,' Investigative Committee head Alexander Bastrykin told state newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta.
'They spared no one. We found a woman who had been killed with a shot to the head. She was eight months' pregnant. Her unborn child died too,' he said."
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Iranmania: "A recent report suggests that the US and Israel had plans to use Georgia as a launchpad for aerial strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, PressTV reported.
Columnist Ian Brockwell says the US is interested in Georgia because it borders Russia, has a pipeline that is intended to transfer oil to Israel, and most importantly is a country that can be used in an attack against Iran.
According to his article in the American Chronicle, the Bush Administration has been looking for an excuse to attack the Islamic Republic so that it can take possession of the country's oil and give Israel a share in Iranian crude by transferring it through Georgia."
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© Copyright 2008 Hetty Litjens.
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