The Long War Journal reposted these images, released by ISIS, which it says show Iraqi soldiers being rounded up by the group.
New York Times: Veteran International Prosecutor Foresees War Crimes Trials for ISIS
THE HAGUE — Stephen J. Rapp, a veteran American lawyer and a familiar figure in international courts, was doing what he most favors — talking about war crimes. Not just citing conflicts that demand the world’s attention, but also discussing how to pursue top offenders.
For example, now that Islamic State militants are reaching far beyond the territory they control, he was asked on a visit to The Hague, do they become more liable under international law?
“We need strategies for investigating and prosecuting them, going after their leaders in Europe, Syria, Iraq or wherever they strike,” Mr. Rapp replied. “It means working with prosecutors in Iraq, Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon to build cases so that they can make arrests in their countries.”
WNU Editor: Sadly .... investigators and prosecutors have enough enough evidence in both Iraq and Syria to conduct war crimes trials that will last to the next century. The focus for now is to document the evidence, and hope and pray that this conflict ends sooner rather than later.
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GWB never got everyone on the Deck of cards. For example we never captured the king of clubs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most-wanted_Iraqi_playing_cards
If too much time is taken these people will die in battle and we will have no record of it. Or they will flee to Turkey or the Gulf States. Can we find or extradite them?
If too much time is taken these people will die in battle and we will have no record of it. Or they will flee to Turkey or the Gulf States.
Or the West will negotiate with them. They'll end up respectable members of a political party of reformed terrorists.
You know, like Gerry Adams.
Technically, Adams never was a terrorist. He never fired a gun in anger or planted a bomb. He was the political leader of the political party with enough arms length from the IRA factions, for "plausible" denial.
I think the examples you are looking for are Menachem Begin or Yitzak Shamir, actual gunmen and bomb throwers .
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