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Judy's avatar

I’ve been saying for years that the USA needs to join the ICC as we clearly can’t follow US or international laws, and we can’t seem to actually hold people responsible for breaking the law. Crimes against humanity are the most outrageous crimes and we should never turn a blind eye.

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Eric Walberg's avatar

your map of country-puppets in the renditions program includes iran?!

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Jeffrey S. Kaye's avatar

Yes. According to the 2013 report, "Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition" by the Open Society Justice Initiative, at least a half-dozen Afghan prisoners were initially arrested in Iran and then deported to U.S. forces in Afghanistan. See report pages 31, 36, 38, 41, 51, 58.

URL: https://www.justiceinitiative.org/uploads/655bbd41-082b-4df3-940c-18a3bd9ed956/globalizing-torture-20120205.pdf

I recall Iran's cooperation with the U.S. in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 was something reported in the newspapers. See, for instance, this 2010 article on Guantanamo prisoner, Hussein Almerfedi, written by Andy Worthington in Eurasia Review. One could say that sometimes politics definitely makes for strange bedfellows!

https://www.eurasiareview.com/15072010-judge-orders-release-from-guantanamo-of-yemeni-seized-in-iran-held-in-secret-cia-prisons/

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Eric Walberg's avatar

that was helping US. trying to be friendly. same with russia giving access to uzbekistan etc. of course the great satan sabotaged both. don’t mix iran and russia with canada, et al. they were never toadies.

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