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2008-02-20 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

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Posted by Fred 2008-02-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 What does a good cop do when he gets orders indicating his superiors are insane?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-02-20 07:55|| 2008-02-20 07:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Not an enviable position, I dunno, Quit probably, simple refusal will get him fired anyway.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-02-20 11:52|| 2008-02-20 11:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Almog, former OC Southern Command, evaded arrest by heeding a warning not to disembark from an El Al flight in September 2005"

Seems like a good result all round: British police were ready to arrest him - which would have resulted in a hugely embarrassing diplomatic situation with potentially years of fall-out (think the Pinochet stupidity) - but he conveniently got tipped off to stay on the plane and, for good measure the officer responsible, no doubt accompanied by full-time airport police, conveniently if improbably 'could not get confirmation that his team had the right to board the plane'. Makes the police look daft but that;s a small price to pay.

Posted by Bulldog 2008-02-20 13:09|| 2008-02-20 13:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Palestinian campaigners have filed private criminal complaints of "war crimes" against Israel military personnel by using a loophole in Britain's Universal Jurisdiction Legislation, since the law does not require the "war criminals" to be citizens of Britain and the alleged crimes did not have to be committed on British soil. London law firm Hickman and Rose, led by Israeli-born lawyer Daniel Machover, has been able to successfully exploit the law.

So, if they scoop him, who puts him on trial? The Brits? The ICC? "Palestine"?

Posted by tu3031 2008-02-20 13:13|| 2008-02-20 13:13|| Front Page Top

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