Blair could face Trial for War Crimes
KosmikK | 14.06.2007 23:56 | Iraq | London | World
LONDON, June 12--TONY BLAIR could face prosecution for war crimes in Iraq following a legal bid launched yesterday.
Former SNP MP Jim Sillars has handed a 10,000-word dossier to Lord Advocate Eilish Angiolini urging her to charge the PM under Scots law.
He claims Blair should be held to account for conspiring to overthrow Saddam Hussein's regime and for starting the war in Iraq.
Both are illegal under international law. An attempt to have Blair hauled before a criminal court in England failed after lawyers said it wasn't the place to deal with international law.
But Sillars claims Scottish courts have the power to try Blair for war crimes if they believe an established offence, such as murder, has been committed in the process.
Sillars said: "There can be no prosecution at the international criminal court because it doesn't have jurisdiction."
"There is no chance of a special court being established by the United Nations because Britain and the United States have the veto at the Security Council. There is no chance of a prosecution in England and Wales."
"But of course Scots law is an entirely different entity, an entirely different jurisdiction with different rules, procedures and instruments available to it."
Sillars said he had been told by legal experts that the Prime Minister has a case to answer.
And he warned: "The Lord Advocate would have to give a very good explanation why, with the evidence presented, she didn't instigate an investigation -- because we have jurisdiction."
Sillars spent six months putting together his complaint, which was lodged last Friday.
In a letter to the Lord Advocate, he said: "I am requesting you to investigate this complaint and prosecute in a Scottish court."
"Although I have a political past, this complaint is based on legal principles and case law, and I shall be obliged if you will examine it in that light and in that light alone."
Sillars, who was assistant secretary general with the Arab/British Chamber of Commerce for 14 years, said Britain and the US are constantly harangued as hypocrites throughout the Arab world.
He explained: "We preach the rule of law. We preach accountability inherent in democracy."
"But when it comes to applying international law, we seem to find it politically inconvenient to pursue the law as it should be pursued."
"The war on terror won't be won by bombs, bullets, aeroplanes and rockets - it will be won by winning the argument at an intellectual, moral level."
Sillars' complaint was launched at the same time as the latest move by the Tories at Westminster to get a new inquiry in the Iraq war -- but they will not join forces as Sillars is seeking a criminal conviction.
A Crown Office spokesman said: "We confirm receipt of correspondence from Jim Sillars. A response will be issued in due course."
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He claims Blair should be held to account for conspiring to overthrow Saddam Hussein's regime and for starting the war in Iraq.
Both are illegal under international law. An attempt to have Blair hauled before a criminal court in England failed after lawyers said it wasn't the place to deal with international law.
But Sillars claims Scottish courts have the power to try Blair for war crimes if they believe an established offence, such as murder, has been committed in the process.
Sillars said: "There can be no prosecution at the international criminal court because it doesn't have jurisdiction."
"There is no chance of a special court being established by the United Nations because Britain and the United States have the veto at the Security Council. There is no chance of a prosecution in England and Wales."
"But of course Scots law is an entirely different entity, an entirely different jurisdiction with different rules, procedures and instruments available to it."
Sillars said he had been told by legal experts that the Prime Minister has a case to answer.
And he warned: "The Lord Advocate would have to give a very good explanation why, with the evidence presented, she didn't instigate an investigation -- because we have jurisdiction."
Sillars spent six months putting together his complaint, which was lodged last Friday.
In a letter to the Lord Advocate, he said: "I am requesting you to investigate this complaint and prosecute in a Scottish court."
"Although I have a political past, this complaint is based on legal principles and case law, and I shall be obliged if you will examine it in that light and in that light alone."
Sillars, who was assistant secretary general with the Arab/British Chamber of Commerce for 14 years, said Britain and the US are constantly harangued as hypocrites throughout the Arab world.
He explained: "We preach the rule of law. We preach accountability inherent in democracy."
"But when it comes to applying international law, we seem to find it politically inconvenient to pursue the law as it should be pursued."
"The war on terror won't be won by bombs, bullets, aeroplanes and rockets - it will be won by winning the argument at an intellectual, moral level."
Sillars' complaint was launched at the same time as the latest move by the Tories at Westminster to get a new inquiry in the Iraq war -- but they will not join forces as Sillars is seeking a criminal conviction.
A Crown Office spokesman said: "We confirm receipt of correspondence from Jim Sillars. A response will be issued in due course."
Alalam News, Iran
http://www.alalam.ir/english/en-NewsPage.asp?newsid=009030120070612192548
Mr Blair extradited? Not as crazy as it sounds
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/william_rees_mogg/article1913297.ece
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Someone DID try to arrest Blair!!
18.06.2007 11:57
Carolyn tried to arrest Tony Blair in March this year - here's how she got on.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/373363.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/373363.html
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Yes, but is it realistic?
15.06.2007 08:29
Christopher Hitchens wrote the book `The Trial of Henry Kissinger` from which a documentary film was made: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0326306/ The odious Dr K, as veteran American broadcaster Danny Schechter calls him, is still at liberty and is unlikely ever to be tried in any court.
Former US attorney general Ramsey Clark organised war crimes tribunals for George Bush senior after the first gulf war and Bush junior after the current war on Iraq. He wrote a book about the illegalities of the first Gulf War called `The Fire this time` He also initiated an attempt to have the current George Bush impeached:
http://www.impeachbush.org/site/PageServer
Sadly, Dumbo Dubya and his aged daddy are still free with the junior version contemplating even more war crimes against Iran.
Occasionally there is a sacraficial patsy like Lewis `Scooter` Libby who has been sentenced to 2 and a half years for perjury (in the "Valerie Plame affair") is an ongoing federal inquiry "into the alleged unauthorized disclosure of a CIA employee's identity," If only the real criminal Dick Cheney (Scooter’s boss) could be brought down, along with Bush himself but that is unlikely to happen.
How about a citizen’s arrest of Blair like the one reported recently in Indymedia?
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/373363.html
Unfortunately it’s hard to see Blair or Bush or Kissinger in any court – Pinochet died in retirement. Still we should keep on trying and I hope Jim Sillars efforts get somewhere.
Paul O'Hanlon
e-mail: o_hanlon@hotmail.com
Ineternational Criminal Court
15.06.2007 09:10
Of course the UK is also a signatory to the OECD anti-corruption treaty that BAe flouts daily. Now BAe is adored by the US military but is seen as a foriegn competitor by the US arms companies, so again I am hopeful of a prosecution of BAe. Any conviction of BAe on fraud charges would expose Blair in that corruption scandal.
U.S. investigating BAE payoff allegations
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bae15jun15,1,318780.story?coll=la-headlines-nation&ctrack=2&cset=true
U.S. Army officially salutes BAE workers
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=U.S.+Army+officially+salutes+BAE+workers&articleId=ad2d85a3-7fb6-4cea-8b6d-a85574a68765
Danny
BLAIR - BLAIR - BLAIR - KILLER - BLAIR - BLAIR - BLAIR
24.06.2007 15:28
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS KILLED IN IRAQ - NOT A WHIMPER ON THE BBC - IT IS UNDERSTANDABLE WHY HOSTAGES ARE TAKEN IN THE MIDDLE EAST - ONLY THENM DOES ANY INKLING OF THE TRUTH OF THE HEINOUS HELLISH BLOODY WARS OF THE MIDDLE EAST GET REPORTED
THE LIKES OF BLAIR, SAWYER & SOLEY SANCTION DEATHS OF ARABIC PEOPLE
YET BLAIR, SAWYER & SOLEY ARE ALL FREEMASONS WHO WORSHIP LUCIFER THE DEVIL
It is well known that Salman Rushdie lives in Notting Hill by the British Government indirectly controlled Housing Association [largest Housing Association] in the UK [Notting Hill Housing Trust with 19,000 properties worth some 5 Billion pounds] which is a corrupt Charitable Trust controlled by the Labour Party. The Housing Association/Trust moved from that road and is now based at 27 Hammersmith Grove, Hammersmith, London W6.
Its Chairman, Chief Executive and all its directors are members of the corrupt Labour Party - appointed indirectly by Blair.
The previous chairman appointed by Blair was chairman of the Labour Party - Labour Lord Tom Sawyer - given a Labour Party peerage by Blair!
His best friend is now Labour Lord Clive Soley [nominated by Blair] - ex Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party who got all the Labour MPs to vote for the war in Iraq, otherwise Soley made it very clear that any Labour MP voting against the Blair directive to vote for the Iraq war [20-03-2003] would "have the whip removed" (would "get the sack") as a Labour Party MP.
Blair, Sawyer and Soley all have fresh blood on their hands!
All the innocent men, women and children they indirectly killed in Iraq.
Blair, Sawyer & Soley are all Freemasons.
1. Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (6/5/1953) will live at 29 Connaught Square, Paddington, City of Westminster, London W2.
2. Tom Sawyer (12/5/43), of 22 Inchmery Road, Catford, London SE6 2NE.
3. Clive Soley (7/5/39) 24 Birch Grove, Ealing Common, London W3 9SS
Mr Blair
Just as you know that Mr Blair will be leaving office as prime minister on 27 June 2007. The grand house to which Blair is moving is located at 29 Connaught Square, west of Marble Arch which is being connected to 5 Archery Close, the cul de sac at its rear.
Whilst building work is now being undertaken to the substantial property, Blair will be living at "Chequers" in Buckinghamshire -the official country home of the British Prime Minister - though he will no longer be Prime Minister.
Talk about being carried away with power and total arrogance!
The whole area of Connaught Square is known as "Tyburnia" where hundreds of years ago British traitors would be hanged from the gallows for betraying the British people.
Blair betrayed the British people.
Blair lied and deceived the British people for the past ten long years.
Blair's lasting legacy is one of betrayal, lies, deception, total corruption, genocide, murder, wars and precedence to the "International" (Jewish) banking fraternity over what was the accountable, transparent, democratic process.
Blair demeaned the Office of the Head of State, whilst greater precedence he bestowed to his Office of British prime minister.
[Asserting to promote a presidential style of British government -
like (George) Bush (Freemason)(CIA),
(William) Clinton (Freemason), (George 'Dubya' = W) Bush (Freemason),
(Hillary?) Clinton presidency] (in March 2008).
The lasting legacy:
"BLAIR - the elective dictator"
It is argued by many of the British people that Blair was the most corrupt British prime minister in living memory.
Blair has been responsible for genocide on the grandest of scales.
Precisely, how many hundreds of thousands of innocent people has Blair been responsible for killing?
INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT - is it going to be used - or does it feel it cannot be used on such a high profile case with such major political overtones?
(ACL) BLAIR - (Charles) FALCONER -(Peter) GOLDSMITH - (Kenneth) MACDONALD - (Jonathan) POWELL - (Peter) MANDELSON - (Alastair) CAMPBELL - (Michael) LEVY and all the eager "puppets".
All prostituted themselves for base power and baser authority from Lucifer the Devil - JABULON -the evil Satanic occult deity of Freemasonry that is worshipped (by many in complete ignorance) by all Freemasons.
What of the unacceptable level of Depleted Uranium ('DU') that Blair introduced into Iraq and into the Middle East through DU ordnance?
What have people of Arabic descent asserted in the World Media about DU which has been used to pollute the Arabic world (the feudal undemocratic monarchies are supported indirectly by the greatest democracy - why? - in order to establish total control of the people who inhabit on the land of the greatest oil reserves in the world that are located in the heart of the Middle East)
Saddam Hussein was toppled because he was a Nationalist and wanted to establish a Bourse (stock exchange) for oil.
Hussein wanted to switch the world currency for trading in oil from the US DOLLAR to the EU EURO.
The United States Government could not allow this grave threat to its pre-eminence in the economic global dominance of world currencies in the oil market, which would have ensured the US would have been immediatedly drawn into an economic RECESSION with fatal consequences for its world dominance of the world economic system, which hinges on the US dollar - the solution - the invasion of IRAQ and the toppling the US/UK "puppet" Saddam Hussein!
Blair WAS indeed a latter-day Hitler or Stalin - a tyrannical dysfunctional dictator.
A man of evil, devoid of any sense of morals or integrity.
Not able to differentiate between right and wrong.
A man directed by the devil incarnate.
Blair is a Luciferian worshipper -a Freemason.
A man who believed only in matter - never ever in spirit.
Hell hath a place waiting for him.
As for George 'W' (Dubya = 'W' = Walker) Bush ('43') he has been 'rewarded' for his evil. His 'gift' is that he will now suffer from a physical condition which many people will not understand. [But he will exhibit all the classic symptoms of the medical condition of SENILE DEMENTIA.]
Bush laughs it off as a joke.
But this is no joke.
[Just as Blair does not understand the meaning of where he will be obliged to live.]
Bush is the most powererful man in the world and can set off the thousands of strategic nuclear WMD targeted on Russia, China and India in a "moment of madness".
Most people [who are living in a sense of ignorance and non fear] do not realise that we have now entered the most dangerous period in world history.
Many people are aware that the Mayan calendar ended in 2012 - they do not realise the reason why...
The most senior politicians in the Western ("first") World have totally abdicated their responsibilities.
There are no nuclear bunkers underground reserved specifically for the public.
The arrogant government have decommissioned, sold off or abandoned the accessible concrete bunkers. [Which were only ever built to house the most senior members of the 'elective dictatorship' in the UK.]
There are no guns for self defence - these have been removed from the hands of law abiding people - only in the hands of outlaws - where respectable citizens have been deliberately made totally impotent.
What has happened to the objections of Charlton Heston and the NRA?
This indicates that resistance to the 'elective dictatorship' tyranny is deliberately being made more difficult.
It is well known that there is a MAD doctrine of war!
MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION doctrine.
Look up Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado [US]
Look up Box Hill, Corsham, Wiltshire [UK]
Look up Menwith Hill, Harrogate, Yorkshire. [UK]
Russia, China and India are totally ignorant of what is going on in an effort by "Wall Street" which controls the Western powers - controlled by the "International" bankers (of Jewish descent).
It is all so craftily devious...
WAKE UP EVERYONE... we are being brainwashed by the Western media.
Hollywood distracts us from the truth, reality and matters of utmost importance.
Over population.
Depletion of raw materials.
Increasing manipulation of the political system by the Jewish bankers such as the Rockefeller & Rothschild dynasties.
What about the highly respectable British weapons inspector, Dr David Kelly who made clear through the media through the journalist Andrew Gilligan of the Labour Party controlled BBC media that there were no Weapons of Mass Destruction ('WMD') - did Blair not order the death of Dr David Kelly through the "Special Services" [referred to by the Queen as the "dark forces"]?
David Shayler [MI5 (Security Service)], Richard Tomlinson [MI6 (Secret Intelligence Service)] - who wrote the book entitled "The Big Breach" about his work at MI6, Katherine Gunn [GCHQ (Government Communications HeadQuarters)] and many others have all spoken out about the Blair lies, deceit and total corruption of the British political and legal institutions.
Populated by Freemasons who have a sworn duty to protect fellow Freemasons unless they have committed Treason or Murder.
However, for the Royal Arch degree of Freemasonry, Murder and Treason are excepted.
"Jack the Ripper"
That is why the Duke of Clarence was never prosecuted for being responsible for the "Jack the Ripper" murders in the east end of London. He was a Freemason.
Thereby he was vested with Immunity from prosecution!
Now all the hitherto respectable British political and legal institutions are ROTTEN to the core. All corrupted by the changes inaugurated into being by by Blair the Freemason.
Ironically, Blair will be living amongst the Arab community to the west of the Edgware Road in the up-market location of Connaught Square - north of Hyde Park.
Just as Blair [the lawyer who passed a law degree at Oxford and studied at the Bar as a member of Lincoln's Inn] was supported financially as prime minister by the dodgy deceitful advice of Michael Abraham Levy [the "International" with substantial bank accounts in Israel] of Chase House, Mill Hill, north London [who deceitfully advised Blair to call donations to the Labour Party as "loans", so that the donations would not have to be disclosed to Parliament and to the public [overriding the authority of Jack Dromey the official Labour Party Treasurer] ensuring unaccountability and a total lack of transparency, ensuring the donors of the donations would get special political advantages, together with knighthoods (the award of the title of 'Sir') or peerages (the award of the title of 'Lord')].
Gordon Brown in turn is supported by Sir Ronald Cohen [the "International" with substantial bank accounts in Israel] of APAX equity partners of Regent Street, central London.
Cohen funded the Brown leadership bid. According to the Times newspaper [owned by Rupert Murdoch - the "International" with substantial bank accounts in Israel] is described by the "Times" as "not only one of the most powerful men in Britain who (supposedly) combines discretion with a reputation for ruthlessness, as a former acolyte of Blair."
Those who control matters in the US, UK and Israel are the "International" bankers of Jewish ancestry.
The British taxation system is a political scandal.
The richest billionaires pay less tax than the cleaners in their organization!
So Cohen was supposedly organising a "shadow" fundraising campaign that perfectly mirrors the one performed by Labour Lord Levy for Blair when Blair was chasing power.
Lord (Conservative Party) McAlpine once dubbed himself Baroness Thatcher’s [Conservative prime minister and MP for the predominantly Jewish area of north London of Finchley - look up the word "eruv" on the Internet whereby an extensive 11 mile system of poles and fences were placed in north London by a predominantly Jewish controlled council or local government with much local opposition by the Gentile community] "jolly bagman", a description that does not fit Cohen so well as Michael Levy (Jewish accountant - who works for a percentage not for a salary), a pop music impresario (agent for pop musicians) whose relentless "Jewish jokes?" made potential donors "beg for mercy". [according to the slanted Times newspaper article dated 23/1/2005 (controlled by the "International" Jewish media controller, Rupert Murdoch)]
Cohen, by contrast, supposedly employs a suave charm. "He’s supposedly delightful and very smooth, perfectly "groomed" and urbane," says someone who has had professional dealings with him. "He’s also a very tough bastard. I crossed him once and he went for me." [Who wrote this stuff that is written in newspaper articles in Jewish controlled newspapers published on the Internet? (reporters who coincidentally happen to be Jewish)]
"The 59-year-old founder of Britain’s venture capital industry might be a touch 'dull' by Levy’s standards, which could explain his appeal to the sober ('boring'?) chancellor, although Cohen’s film-making (very Jewish) wife lends him a dash of Hollywood (controlled solely by Jewish executives) glamour.
Cohen’s "rags-to-riches" (with Jewish help) life has been anything but 'dull'. Arriving in Britain as a child with only a few words of English, [but where his Jewish family not mightily rich?] he became president of the Oxford Union on his ascent to the pinnacle of European Jewish controlled finance.
"There should be big rewards for (Jewish) men who are willing to go out and start something," he said once. It was a maxim he put to startling effect by building his APAX (equity financing) business into one of the three truly global (Jewish) venture capital firms.
Under Cohen, APAX’s coups were legendary as it ploughed billions into 500 (Jewish) start-up firms, some of which became national institutions. It put money into PPL Therapeutics, which produced Dolly the (cloned) sheep.
APAX backed Chris Evans’s £85m buyout of VIRGIN RADIO, later sold for a whopping £225m. WATERSTONE’s bookshops, YELLOW PAGES and the internet giant AOL (AmericaOnLine) have all benefited from Cohen’s (Jewish) "Midas touch" (Jewish) (connections).
His efforts have brought great personal rewards (to the Jewish "Internationals").
With a fortune put at £70 million by The Sunday Times Rich List, he lives at an elegant £15 million property in west London with his third wife, Sharon HAREL-COHEN, one of the producers of the movie GOSFORD PARK and the mother of his two Jewish children, Tamara, 17, and Jonathan, 13. Here they give lavish parties for the likes of the Rothschilds (Jewish "Internationals"), the RAUSING (Jewish) billionaires (who live immediately north west of Holland Park (Aubrey House, Aubrey Road, London W8 7JJ) who invented the Tetra Pak and avoided Swedish tax by living in London) and Cohen’s old mentor Sir Clive Sinclair.
At their home in New York they have welcomed their friends the Clintons, and their villa at 'Mougins' is a welcoming beacon to stars at the nearby Cannes film festival.
Visitors to APAX’s London headquarters in Portland Place [west of the BBC] are supposedly "disarmed" by its decor.
In the opinion of John Studzinski, former deputy chairman of MORGAN STANLEY INTERNATIONAL (Jewish controlled): “He’s as tough as nails. He’s as formidable in business as he is gracious in philanthropic and social circles.”
He fell under Blair’s corruption in 1996. "Cohen decided that here was a man who was capable of implementing a programme of privatisation of public sector assets that Cohen believed in for 30 years," he declared, after sealing his conversion with an apparently large cheque for the Labour Party, reported to be £100,000.
This must have dismayed the Liberal party, for which he stood as parliamentary candidate in Kensington North in 1974 and would-be MEP in London West five years later. [As politics is a mere "game" - the Jewish "Internationals" back all three political parties so that they control politics for their international banking and financial empire!
The Jewish "Internationals" banking empire all seek the destruction of religion [the TOWER = RELIGIOUS UNITY] and a ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT which they presently control by their "puppet" politicians [the CITY - POLITICAL UNITY].
The International banking elite control Freemasonry through Bnai Brith which takes precedence in Freemasonry.
There are 2 rites in Freemasonry.
i) Scottish Rite (Egyptian) Church (Pope) (3 + 30 degrees);
ii) York Rite (State) (Throne of England)(3 + 6 degrees).
Freemasonry is a world wide organization with over 6 million members.
Research it on the Internet.
Freemasonry
Illuminati
Supreme Council
Skull & Bones [Yale]
Bilderberg Group
Bohemian Grove
Council on Foreign Relations
Trilateral Commission
RIIA - IISS
FIAT EMPIRE - why the Federal Reserve violates the US Constitution video ...
as the printing of paper money is unconstitutional.
Much needs to be researched.
You will then see that things are not as they might appear to be...
John Smith
e-mail: john_smith_mail@hotmail.com
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