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Ex-UN prosecutor: Bush may be next up for International Criminal Court
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An ex-UN prosecutor has said that following the issuance of an arrest warrant for the president of Sudan, former US President George W. Bush could — and should — be next on the International Criminal Court’s list.
The former prosecutor’s assessment was echoed in some respect by United Nations General Assembly chief Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann of Nicaragua, who said America’s military occupation of Iraq has caused over a million deaths and should be probed by the United Nations.
“David Crane, an international law professor at Syracuse University, said the principle of law used to issue an arrest warrant for [Sudanese President] Omar al-Bashir could extend to former US President Bush over claims officials from his Administration may have engaged in torture by using coercive interrogation techniques on terror suspects,” reported the New Zealand Herald
The indictment of Bashir was a landmark, said Crane, because it paved a route for the court at The Hague to pursue heads of states engaged in criminality.
Objective C
Reading my first Objective C book, and this is when it hit home that the base functionality available to the Mac OS developer today may, ehm, be quite a bit more than way back when I working on Mac OS 9 software…
NSString *home;
home = [@"~" stringByExpandingTildeInPath];
Rogue Merrill Trader Hid $400 Million Loss
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Merrill has discovered that a London-based trader who said he made $120 million last year actually lost $400 million. Merrill describes this as “an irregularity.” The trader described it as “a misunderstanding.”
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Vatican backs abortion row bishop
In case you thought it was just one loony bischop in Brazil:
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A senior Vatican cleric has defended the excommunication in Brazil of the mother and doctors of a young girl who had an abortion with their help.
The nine-year-old had conceived twins after alleged abuse by her stepfather.
Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re told Italian paper La Stampa that the twins “had the right to live” and attacks on Brazil’s Catholic Church were unfair.
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The impeachment of Nixon was a notable event in declaring that the “most powerful person” in a country was still subject to the laws of that country. The indictment, arrest, trial, and conviction of George Bush, Dick Cheney, and whoever else truly deserves it, would be a declaration for future generations that no one nor group, no matter how powerful, is above international law. This would be a watershed moment in creating a more peaceful world.
The alternative is to let any would-be dictator be vindicated in believing that nothing is forbidden for those powerful enough.