Reply #27: Sydney Morning Hearld: "PM could be prosecuted over Iraq war: lawyer"

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PM could be prosecuted over Iraq war: lawyer
June 17, 2005 - 1:20AM

Prime Minister John Howard could face criminal prosecution overseas for Australia's role in the Iraq war, an international lawyer says.

Philippe Sands, QC, director of the Centre for International Courts and Tribunals at University College London, says Mr Howard along with British Prime Minister Tony Blair could face charges amid claims the Iraq war was illegal.

United States President George Bush and US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld could also find themselves in similar predicaments, Professor Sands says.

"Under international law an illegal war amounts to the crime of aggression and in some countries around the world a crime of aggression is one in which they exercise jurisdiction," ..... "A whole new range of international criminal laws has emerged and when you break the rules of international law you pay a price for that and one of the prices that you pay if you are a leader is that you travel with greater care and caution." Prof Sands told ABC TV.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/PM-could-be-prosecuted-over-Iraq-war-lawyer/2005/06/17/1118869052416.html?oneclick=true

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - Impeachment of Bush and Cheney; indictment and prosecution of all members of the Bush regime who participated in the deception, should be campaign promises of any candidate worthy of our vote in the 2006 Congressional elections.