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| US must be taken to court: Iran cmdr. |
| 2010-10-25 |
| [Iran Press TV] A senior Iranian commander Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri says the United States should be brought to trial as the world's greatest violator of human rights. ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... "Horrifying news and information about the violation of human rights by the US government and its liberal democrat regime are received," Deputy Head of Iran's Armed Forces Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Sunday. Jazayeri added that the US should be taken to court for violating the rights of its own citizens as well as for violating human rights in other countries, Mehr News Agency reported. The Iranian commander said in the past there was no opportunity to address the countless cases of human rights violations by the US but today the opportunity has risen due to the decline in Washington's power and the promotion of an atmosphere of freedom. "If [former US president George W.] Bush had been taken to court over the war crimes he committed in Iraq, maybe we would have witnessed fewer crimes by America," Jazayeri concluded. In the largest-ever revelation of secret US military documents, whistleblower website Wikileaks has released nearly 400,000 classified reports about the US-led war in Iraq. The leaked documents, which cover the period between January 1, 2004, and January 1, 2010, have shed light on a myriad of crimes and offences committed in Iraq over the past few years, including liquidations, murders, torture and rape. The documents comprise the second such release from the controversial website, which had accused the United States of "war crimes" earlier, after releasing some 92,000 similar secret military files detailing operations in Afghanistan. The damning documents accuse the United States Defense Department of instructing American troops to ignore reports of torture; they also suggest "hundreds" of civilians have been killed at US military checkpoints since the beginning of the war. Refusing to discus the Wikileaks revelations, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton merely condemned the leak of any document "putting Americans at risk." "We should condemn in the most clear terms the disclosure of any information by individuals and or organizations which puts the lives of United States and its partners' service members and civilians at risk," she said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 boy if they worried about the liberal demo machine they should really look after ppl like me. |
| Posted by: chris 2010-10-25 08:46 |