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Iraq
UN protests execution of militant
2007-07-30
The top United Nations envoy in Iraq called for the abolition of the death penalty on Sunday after a militant convicted of killing 22 people in an attack on the UN missionÂ’s headquarters was hanged.

Ashraf Qazi, special representative of UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon, was reacting to the execution of the man blamed for the August 2003 attack that killed his predecessor Sergio Viera de Mello and 20 colleagues. “The United Nations has consistently encouraged states to abolish the death penalty, which it also rejects in cases of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide,” the envoy’s spokesman said in a statement. Qazi “also reiterated his hope that the government of Iraq would abolish the death penalty and prevent further executions.
Posted by:Fred

#4  It's about time to declare the UN dead and bury them before they get any smellier.
Posted by: JohnQC   2007-07-30 18:40  

#3  Â“The United Nations has consistently encouraged states to abolish the death penalty, which it also rejects in cases of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide,”

Which sums up just how totally demagnetized the UN's moral compass is.

If society is unwilling to execute those who do not blink at mass murder and the wholesale extermination of innocent people, then it surrenders itself to their predations. This is an intrinsic rejection of the social contract. We must do unto others as they would do unto us. Sometimes we must do so before they even get the chance to do anything unto us.

Our survival of Islam's evil agenda relies upon pre-emption. They have declared their intentions. It is upon us to act accordingly. We've yet to do so and instead have overfed the above mindset. It is anti-survival and those who embrace such a monstrous distortion of self-preservation need to be given over to their objects of sympathy for some intellectual and physical realignment.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-07-30 12:49  

#2  One diplomat at a time? The sure don't seem to care when one gets whacked.
Posted by: mojo   2007-07-30 10:14  

#1  Rich! The representative of one of those Arabs thugocracies calling for abolition of death penalty.
Even richer if this gut turns beiong Saudi.

Now, let's abolish teh UN instead.
Posted by: JFM   2007-07-30 09:39  

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