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U.N. Scolds U.S. for Deadly Strike on Iran Terror Leader Soleimani
2020-07-08
[BREITBART] The deadly January U.S. dronezap that eliminated Iran’s terror commander Qasem Soleimani and nine other people was a violation of international law, a U.N. human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
investigator claimed Monday.The United States has failed to provide sufficient evidence of an ongoing or imminent attack against its interests to justify the strike on General Soleimani’s convoy as it left Baghdad airport, lamented U.N. special rapporteur Agnes Callamard a full six months after the event.

The attack violated the U.N. Charter, Callamard alleged in a report calling for accountability for assassinations by armed drones and for greater regulation of the weapons.

"The world is at a critical time, and possible tipping point, when it comes to the use of drones. ... The Security Council is missing in action; the international community, willingly or not, stands largely silent," Callamard, an independent investigator, told Rooters.

Soleimani directed Iranian military operations abroad, including terror strikes in third party states. Just one week before his death, he is thought to have directed rocket attacks that killed an American civilian contractor in Iraq.

A United Nations "scolding?" I recommend it be worn as a badge of honor.



Posted by:Fred

#9  Danged auto correct got me
Sometimes I really hate technology and it makes me worry about artificial intelligence when makes a hash of something as simple as auto correct
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom    2020-07-08 17:46  

#8  I suppose it is not proper diplomatese to tell the Security to go come to go fuck themselves
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom    2020-07-08 17:42  

#7  ...Callamard, an independent investigator, told Rooters.

An exemplar of the term 'arrogance' :a minor flunky, on her own authority no less, is calling out a sovereign nation's conduct.
Posted by: magpie   2020-07-08 16:56  

#6  Awfully damn quiet when Obama had his pencil and his list offing offending people.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-07-08 09:25  

#5  US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!
Posted by: DarthVader   2020-07-08 08:52  

#4  Rambler, I like it. $1M/scold
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2020-07-08 07:51  

#3  Trump needs to build a moat around the UN infestation in NY
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-07-08 02:36  

#2  Consider us properly chastised. We solemnly promise not to do it again until next time.

Is there really such a thing as UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions? Not to be cruel, but it sounds like a useless, make-work position.
Posted by: SteveS   2020-07-08 00:22  

#1  What Trump ought to do is every time the UN comes out with one of these idiotic reports, drop $1,000,000 from our contribution.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2020-07-08 00:17  

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