In theory, I know this, but in practice, my brain says we don't know. Extradition is called for. Shrub's Congress passes a law making such extradition impossible. There's an almighty international incident.
More likely, the UK DPP decides no case to answer on lack of evidence grounds. Because that's what they normally do when it looks controversial :-(
So basicly, as long as the soldiers kept out of any country with an extradition treaty with Britain, they'd be fine. And hope that the US doesn't get a government with morals.
I recall reading the first report that stopped at the truck weaving erratically at the US group, causing them to shoot. If the story stopped there, I wouldn't mind so much - there's no way the soldiers could have known that the truck wasn't being used as a car bomb.
But this... being shot in the head AFTER the soldiers went out to inspect the ambulance? That's just cold blooded murder.
Thanks for sharing this news.
- James -
...who's own father was once surrounded by Marines while in Vietnam (he was a courier carrying some intelligence and was protected while going through a small village, when a little girl carrying a basket of fruit ran toward my dad's group. The Marines ordered her to stop but she did not, so they shot her. Moments later, the basket exploded due to a bomb that was planted inside it. I have sympathy for some of the deplorable acts performed in war, but the situation with the journalist isn't the same sort of protectiveness, damn it.
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Date: 2006-10-13 10:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-14 12:51 am (UTC)More likely, the UK DPP decides no case to answer on lack of evidence grounds. Because that's what they normally do when it looks controversial :-(
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Date: 2006-10-14 01:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-14 01:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-14 01:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-14 03:50 am (UTC)But this... being shot in the head AFTER the soldiers went out to inspect the ambulance? That's just cold blooded murder.
Thanks for sharing this news.
- James -
...who's own father was once surrounded by Marines while in Vietnam (he was a courier carrying some intelligence and was protected while going through a small village, when a little girl carrying a basket of fruit ran toward my dad's group. The Marines ordered her to stop but she did not, so they shot her. Moments later, the basket exploded due to a bomb that was planted inside it. I have sympathy for some of the deplorable acts performed in war, but the situation with the journalist isn't the same sort of protectiveness, damn it.
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Date: 2006-10-14 03:52 am (UTC)- James -
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Date: 2006-10-14 10:37 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-14 11:09 am (UTC)