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[EJIL: Talk!] UK Inquiry to Consider Legality of Iraq War and Appoints Former ...: Although the UK is a party to the ICC Statute and even if the ICC parties were to agree  next summer on a definition of aggression and conditions for the exercise of ICC jurisdiction over that crime,  Tony Blair and other UK leaders cannot be prosecuted for aggression by the ICC. This is because the jurisdiction of the ICC over aggression will not be retrospective.

[Derecho Internacional Publico] UK Inquiry to Consider Legality of Iraq War and Appoints Former ...: The Inquiry will be conducted by a team of five headed by a former civil servant, Sir John Chilcot. It includes an academic (Sir Lawrence Freedman), a historian (Sir Martin Gilbert), a former diplomat (Sir Roderic Lyne) and a member of the House of Lords (Baroness Usha Prashar).

[Deadline Press & Picture Agency] Family of Iraq war dead demand face to face showdown with former ...: When the Sir John Chilcot, chair of the inquiry said he couldn't “guarantee a seat”, Rose replied: “We want to be face-to-face with him - get a bigger hall.” Valerie O'Neill also blamed Tony Blair for the death of her son, Kris, who was killed after his un-armoured Land Rover .The inquiry has been examining thousands of documents relating to the war in Iraq and in events leading up the decision to invade.

[Iraq Inquiry Digest] Trust in democracy » Iraq Inquiry Digest: For many people these previous inquiries were unsatisfactory because they came to no clear conclusion about the key question: in March 2003 the UK Government had said that the evidence was conclusive that Iraq had wmd, yet in fact there were none. The Butler Report hinted at concerns about “sofa government” and revealed that the UK had not formally reviewed the wmd intelligence between October 2002 and the invasion, even though UN weapons inspections had undermined the assertions made in the September 2002 dossier.

[Investor's Iraq Forum - Iraq Dinar Forum, Iraq Investments, Iraq Stock Exchange, Iraq Bank, Iraq News, Iraqi Dinar] Special Report: A Clear-Eyed View of the Obama Regime - Investor's ...: This is the same Administration that issued the controversial “rightwing extremism” memo in which the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo targeted “groups, movements, and adherents… that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority” and “groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.” That memo also suggested that returning veterans from Afghanistan and Iraq were joining up with domestic terror groups.

[Random Blowe] Random Blowe: Iraq Inquiry Digest Launched: There has been nothing new on the Iraq Inquiry since early September, then its chair Sir John Chilcot announced that he had written "to veterans groups, service charities and Regimental and Service Associations seeking their views on what .Its supporters include MPs from the three Westminster parties, Rose Gentle of Military Families Against the War, whose son Gordon was killed in Iraq, Dr Glen Rangwala (who is editor of Labour Briefing and who discovered that Downing .

[Balabal News Updates] MOONCALF DEDFINITION!MOONCALF!DEFINE MOONCALF!LOWE S!ELECTRIC WALL ...: Editor's note: Zhu Weiqun, the executive vice director of the United Front Work Department (UFWD) of the Communist Party of China (CPC), was interviewed by Germany's Focus magazine on September 22 about China's policy on the Tibet Autonomous Region and the central government's attitude towards the Dalai Lama. Following is an excerpt of th […]

[Bethan Jenkins AC/AM Blog] Bethan Jenkins AC/AM Blog » Blog Archive » Iraq War Inquiry- how ...: Until amendments of this kind are introduced, or the role of the legislature is recognised in forming inquiries of such a sensitive nature for the government, I find it difficult to envisage how this most recent inquiry in to the Iraq war will differ from the Hutton inquiry to any true extent or meaning. The Chilcot inquiry has already noted that it does not foresee taking evidence from US sources, and the Inquiries Act shows quite clearly that public access to the evidence can be restricted, and that the relevant Minister can exert undue control over the situation.

[Dear Kitty. Some blog] Dear Kitty. Some blog :: Iraq war inquiry, secret or open? :: June ...: Gordon Brown was under intense pressure last night to throw open a new inquiry into the Iraq war to the public as families of soldiers who died, and anti-war MPs, reacted with horror to suggestions it would be held largely in secret. Labour MP Alan Simpson, chair of Labour Against the War, said Brown's strategy of using the inquiry as part of a personal political fight-back and to win favour with his backbenchers was in danger of backfiring spectacularly.

[Nick Robinson's Newslog] BBC - Nick Robinson's Newslog: El Presidente: Now I am in favour of it - the EU that is - but if you are against it as many of the very UKIP / Tory / bloggers on here seem to be - Then the current conservative position that David Cameron is putting forward -saying that we can change it in the future is completely dishonest. If this becomes well known prior to the election the Pontius Pilot impersonation that he hopes to do if elected will not wash.

[INTIFADA] Israeli Minister's Speech Disrupted at London University « INTIFADA: I am glad that the words “act with impunity”appeared in the Presiding Bishop’s letter.Israel has operated for far too long in fullexpectation of impunity”¦because we, the“other” residents of this “civilized” world, haveaverted our eyes, or excused present abhorrentbehavior based on some past wrong done to thepsychotic, and/or otherwise created and enableda culture OF IMPUNITY. This must end, andsoonest ”” for the good of the observant Jewsfollowing their God, and most especially for thepitiable, endlessly tormented God’schildren of Palestine, whether they be in theillegally Occupied Territories, in nearby countries’squalid, over-crowded refugee camps, in the widerdiaspora, or in (borderless) Israel itself, where the20-percent Palestinian-Arab Israeli “citizens” whoface humiliating discrimination and outright savageryas facts of their daily existence.

[Breaking News] Iraqi court seeks arrest of Sunni parliamentarian for financing ...: Iraqis blame al-Qaida for death of Sunni lawmakerBAGHDAD ”” The government blamed al-Qaida in Iraq Saturday for the killing of a prominent Sunni lawmaker, as political figures joined together across sectarian lines in a show of solidarity against a return to violence. Sunni and Shiite lawmakers called the slaying of Harith al-Obeidi ”” the leader of the largest Sunni bloc in parliament ”” an attack against moderation, as they took turns at the podium to call for a united front against terrorism.

[John Rentoul] John Rentoul - Dirty work: I remember it was fashionable in the early ninenties to rally on the streets against the slaughter of thousand of Kurds by Saddam's brutal regime;then vociferous campaigners of the Kurdish cause, like Vivienne Westwood and George Michael, are now strenouos opponents of the Iraq war and the Kurdis have been outmoded and replaced by the innocent civilians killed in Iraq by Al-Quaeda as a fair retaliation against the wicked West ( according to the gospel of the anti-war crusaders ).For the first time, thanks to Blair, Britain was not the nation of Major's empty chair at the European Council, but a country that cared of the world, and looked after its most beleaguered inhabitants.

[Breaking News] Blair imposes 2-week deadline to notify Congress on intelligence ...: LONDON - Former British premier Tony Blair is to visit the Middle East next week to try and broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, according to a report Tuesday. Blair, the Middle East envoy for the EU, Russia, the US and Britain, is to meet Israeli and Palestinian officials and politicians in his efforts to bring an end to a conflict that has killed 300 people so far.

[Firedoglake] FDL News Desk » Goldman Sachs Vice-Chair: People Must “Tolerate ...: I would next suggest “Complaints” against the government officials such as Zelikow, Feith, Wolfowitz and all the Cheney's who lied about the Iraq War. But it is certainly shocking that Hank was palin' around with his old GS buddies, .

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