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War Crimes Update

Robin | 01.04.2003 15:27

We'll forget about this as its not a fashionable subject.. brush it under the carpet..only American or British war crimes can be discussed.. no don't say that.. Anti Western material only.. you must conform

Iraq pressed over missing Kuwaitis


Families in Kuwait still seek their lost relatives

The United Nations Security Council has expressed "deep concern" over what it says is Baghdad's failure to address the issue of Kuwaitis and other nationals who have been missing in Iraq since 1991.

Iraq has yet to match its words on the fate of missing persons with tangible deeds and cooperation

Security council statement
Security Council resolutions have called on Iraq to facilitate the return of about 600 foreigners - mostly Kuwaitis - detained during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, or the subsequent Gulf War.

So far there has been little progress. Iraq says it has lost track of the prisoners.

US ambassador to the UN John Negroponte - who currently chairs the council - also dismissed the latest letter from the Iraqi government proposing new talks on the return of UN weapons inspectors.

Pledges

Ever since the Gulf War, Kuwait has pressed Baghdad to return missing family members, or their remains.

And the Americans have raised the issue of a missing navy pilot, whose plane was shot down over Iraq in 1991.


Negroponte urged Iraq to cooperate


"Despite growing international activity... the government of Iraq has yet to match its words on the fate of missing persons with tangible deeds and cooperation," the security council said on Wednesday.

At the Beirut Arab League summit in March, Iraq promised to respect Kuwait's sovereignty and to resolve the issues of prisoners and property seized during the conflict.

The Security Council endorsed a call by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan for Iraq to "stand by its intention to fully implement the decisions of the Beirut summit on the issue of missing persons".

Iraq, for its part, says it lost track of foreign prisoners during an uprising in the south of the country in 1991.

It also says that more than 1,000 of its own nationals remain unaccounted for.

However, Red Cross officials have inspected Kuwait's prisons and found only 40 Iraqis, all common criminals.

Robin

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Just shut up you idiot/disinformation whore

01.04.2003 17:06

When the armed forces of Britain and America are busy murdering innocent civilians in an illegal war this is where our attention must be. We can affect the course of this imperial adventure through our pressure, as we already have. When the US is using Israeli techniques of sensory deprivation torture, when the British army is summarily executing captured Iraqis, when plans are afoot for concentration camps for those Iraqi patriots who are resisting this brutal invasion, when the bombs are falling every day, and blood is running in the streets of Iraq
just fxxx off, you sicken me with your pathetic attempt to change the subject

Ghost Buster

Gb Lies

01.04.2003 18:01

Frigging arsehole liar. Where's your proof that Brits are summarily executing Iraqi prisoners. You shit eating fraud go gobble another turd. The only thing that issues from your mouth is CRAP.

liebuster

You don't like the truth, do you?

01.04.2003 19:04

Look copper (you must be a copper, or maybe military intel, since the way you write reveals you as someone who probably wouldnt make the MI5 cut-- not too quick upstairs are you?)
you may not like the truth, but the British army has a long record of atrocities from Kenya in the 1950s, where it participated in torture, blindings, castrations, and summary executions; in Cyprus, where it also showed its colours; on to the streets of Belfast and Londonderry (where you probably won your spurs).

The report of British troops executing two Iraqis in a town outside of Basra was reported by Russian GRU intelligence intercepts, and also independently reported on Al_Jazeera. American troops interviewed in Sunday's New York times were quoted on the shoot.

If you don't think that a lot of innocent people who happen to have taken up arms to defend their country against brutal invaders are not being killed without being asked for their Geneva convention info then you are as gullible as you are stupid.

You should feel ashamed of yourself: you are part of a fascist war machine spreading evil and hate across the world. No wonder you talk so much of excrement, you are living in the midst of it.

But you can choose: you can turn your back on the machine.

Ghost Buster

You don't like the truth, do you?

01.04.2003 19:10

Look copper (you must be a copper, or maybe military intel, since the way you write reveals you as someone who probably wouldnt make the MI5 cut-- not too quick upstairs are you?)
you may not like the truth, but the British army has a long record of atrocities from Kenya in the 1950s, where it participated in torture, blindings, castrations, and summary executions; in Cyprus, where it also showed its colours; on to the streets of Belfast and Londonderry (where you probably won your spurs).

The report of British troops executing two Iraqis in a town outside of Basra was reported by Russian GRU intelligence intercepts, and also independently reported on Al_Jazeera. American troops interviewed in Sunday's New York times were quoted on the shooting of suspicous civilians, and I don't imagine the British army does much differently.

If you don't think that a lot of innocent people who happen to have taken up arms to defend their country against brutal invaders are not being killed without being asked for their Geneva convention info then you are as gullible as you are stupid.

You should feel ashamed of yourself: you are part of a fascist war machine spreading evil and hate across the world. No wonder you talk so much of excrement, you are living in the midst of it.

But you can choose: you can turn your back on the machine.

Ghost Buster

Dis information?

01.04.2003 20:27

I see Ghost Buster you are the higher power of us all who knows what is true and what is not true. You are the all seeing all hearing power. YOU know what is true and what is not... nobody else. Listen everyone if you have an opinion or information run it by this dude as he knows all.. Remember ALL posts MUST be on a STRICT anti war theme or they are false. If they are not Anti Western the information you are providing will be false and Western propoganda.. You DO NOT have the ability to think for yourselves.. only ghost buster can decide what is true and what is not..

Not an attempt to change any subject I think this is an extremely relevant subject.

Robin

Go find Batman

01.04.2003 20:54

Look Robin, this ain't about me: it is about your wishing to echo the corporate media on Indymedia. I don't think that Mr Negroponte, who represents the United States at the UN, has any problem disseminating his point of view. The corporate media repeats whatever issues from the lie machines of the Pentagon or Downing Street as if it were the truth (until we learn later about plagiarized dossiers, about uranium imports by Iraq from Niger proved by forged documents, about captured Iraqi generals and about chemical weapons factories which turn out to be neither). What happened in 1991 (and earlier in the 80s when Mr Negroponte was running guns to the contra terrorists in Nicaragua, and Britain was shipping out 155 mm howitzers and its desert fighting uniforms for the use of the Iraqi army) was horrible, and I hope Saddam Hussein dies tonight under a cruise missile which for once is as "precise" as we are told. But what is happening NOW as we write is the MURDER OF CIVILIANS, THE TORTURE OF PRISONERS OF WAR, in a criminal and illegal war. So don't try to change the subject, Mr Disinfoman, you're a slightly classier act than "lie buster" but not much.

Ghost Buster

well blow me down!

02.04.2003 14:01

Gosh, you mean Saddam and his regime aren't very nice?

And to think we never realised. It's a good job our benign rulers did, though; else they might have sold him arms and trained his secret services. Just imagine how hypocritical they'd look now if they had!

kurious oranj