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2020-01-03 International-UN-NGOs
US airstrike that killed Qassim Soleimani of Iran violates human rights law, UN official says
STFU - UN out of the US
[NY Post] The UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killing on Friday said the President Trump-approved drone strike against Qassim Soleimani, Iran's top general, violated international human rights law.

In a lengthy Twitter thread, Agnès Callamard said that "outside the context of active hostilities, the use of drones or other means for targeted killing is almost never likely to be legal," adding that the US would need to prove the person targeted constituted an imminent threat to others.

She also took issue with the justification for using drones in another country on the basis of self-defense.

"Under customary international law States can take military action if the threatened attack is imminent, no other means would deflect it, and the action is proportionate," she wrote.
These idiots are deranged
“The test for so-called anticipatory self-defense is very narrow: it must be a necessity that is ‘instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means, and no moment of deliberation.’ This test is unlikely to be met in these particular cases,” she added.

Callamard noted that “an individual’s past involvement in ‘terrorist’ attacks is not sufficient to make his targeting for killing lawful.”

The French human rights expert also criticized the Pentagon’s statement about the airstrike.

“It mentions that it aimed at ‘deterring future Iranian attack plans.’ This however is very vague. Future is not the same as imminent which is the time based test required under international law,” she wrote.
Posted by Frank G 2020-01-03 09:01|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top
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#1  “an individual’s past involvement in ‘terrorist’ attacks is not sufficient to make his targeting for killing lawful.”

Bitch is insane or what ? I agree the cheques may be generous, and prostituting yourself out to islamists is very convenient, but at least have a sense of fucking dignity.
Posted by Dron66046 2020-01-03 09:27||   2020-01-03 09:27|| Front Page Top

#2 As of November 2013, Callamard is Director of Columbia University's Global Freedom of Expression initiative
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-03 09:38||   2020-01-03 09:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Do you know how many FAA rules were broken by blowing up an airport? Security security there are bad men with explosives going through the metal detectors!
Posted by Sluting Uluting7916 2020-01-03 09:41||   2020-01-03 09:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Future is not the same as imminent which is the time based test required under international law,

I didn't know UN legalists even meditated on the 'many worlds theory' to decide just what actions lead to their universe branching off.
Posted by Dron66046 2020-01-03 09:52||   2020-01-03 09:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Herb's gonna be so cross !
Posted by Dron66046 2020-01-03 10:05||   2020-01-03 10:05|| Front Page Top

#6 Iranian General in a foreign nation out of uniform involved in riots that threatened an embassy. He was thus legally a spy or pirate and spies and pirates can be killed legally in any way that seems appropriate (barring political considerations).
Posted by ruprecht 2020-01-03 10:49||   2020-01-03 10:49|| Front Page Top

#7 #5 - at least no goat herders were harmed
Posted by Frank G 2020-01-03 11:17||   2020-01-03 11:17|| Front Page Top

#8 Soleimani was full-time military engaged in some military function, considering the identities of the other KIA's. so please don't try to tell me that he was going to an "arab tribal wedding". Stop trying to equate him with a civilian. It may have been "rude" to whack him on Iraqi soil, national sovereignty and all that, but War Crime it wasn't.
Posted by magpie 2020-01-03 11:41||   2020-01-03 11:41|| Front Page Top

#9 don't try to tell me that he was going to an "arab tribal wedding"

Actually, please do try to tell me that. As he was a persian, it would say a lot about the person / publication making the claim.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-01-03 11:47||   2020-01-03 11:47|| Front Page Top

#10 Fine - file a fuckin' lawsuit then.
Posted by Raj 2020-01-03 11:57||   2020-01-03 11:57|| Front Page Top

#11 rapporteur

Why do I have a visceral disgust for that word?

I love language, I love arts, but that thing leaves a taste like a gin milk fizz.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-01-03 12:13||   2020-01-03 12:13|| Front Page Top

#12 So? What are you gonna do about it? Next we'll drone strike the UN.
Posted by DarthVader 2020-01-03 12:24||   2020-01-03 12:24|| Front Page Top

#13 Even by her ridiculously strained definition - "imminent" - the strike was justified. Pompeo noted that this POS of course was preparing dozens of imminent attacks. That's why the f---er flew into Baghdad.
Posted by Lex 2020-01-03 12:39||   2020-01-03 12:39|| Front Page Top

#14 By the way, Soleimani's chaps killed something like 2000 Iranian protesters.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-03 12:56||   2020-01-03 12:56|| Front Page Top

#15 When do they haul Bath House in for droning Anwar al-Awlaki?
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-01-03 13:35||   2020-01-03 13:35|| Front Page Top

#16 The beloved Tubby Flabbard now has weighed in that killing Soleimani was "unconstitutional. "You white devils have no right to defend yourselves." Who still admires her? Anybody?
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-01-03 13:42||   2020-01-03 13:42|| Front Page Top

#17 "outside the context of active hostilities"

Attacking tankers, a refinery and an embassy qualifies as what?
Posted by European Conservative 2020-01-03 13:49||   2020-01-03 13:49|| Front Page Top

#18 Shorter UN: "You're gonna get raped, so just lie back and enjoy it, don't resist"
Posted by Frank G 2020-01-03 14:35||   2020-01-03 14:35|| Front Page Top

#19 wtf are yall going to do?
Posted by Chris 2020-01-03 16:13||   2020-01-03 16:13|| Front Page Top

#20 ^Impeach!!!
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-03 16:55||   2020-01-03 16:55|| Front Page Top

#21 Trump to Ayatollah Khamenei: We're better at war than you can even imagine. How would you like one in your front lawn?
Posted by jpal 2020-01-03 17:16||   2020-01-03 17:16|| Front Page Top

#22 Introduce this deluded wench to our Arab friend, FOAD
Posted by Lex 2020-01-03 17:58||   2020-01-03 17:58|| Front Page Top

#23 Wow. I think people here are developing Herb Derangement Syndrome. To think of it! People bring me up in threads I'm not in, and come up with weird positions they assign to me. It's just like TDS.
Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-01-03 19:01||   2020-01-03 19:01|| Front Page Top

#24 and you F-4 search for your name :-) It's all good.
Posted by Frank G 2020-01-03 19:33||   2020-01-03 19:33|| Front Page Top

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