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U.N. expert deems U.S. drone strike on Iran's Soleimani an 'unlawful' killing


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GENEVA (Reuters) - The January U.S. drone strike in Iraq that killed top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and nine other people represented a violation of international law, a U.N. human rights investigator said on Monday.

FILE PHOTO: A supporter of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah carries pictures of the late Iran's Quds Force top commander Qassem Soleimani during a rally commemorating the annual Hezbollah's slain leaders in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon February 16, 2020. REUTERS/Aziz Taher/File Photo

The United States has failed to provide sufficient evidence of an ongoing or imminent attack against its interests to justify the strike on Soleimani’s convoy as it left Baghdad airport, said Agnes Callamard, U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.

The attack violated the U.N. Charter, Callamard wrote in a report calling for accountability for targeted killings by armed drones and for greater regulation of the weapons.

“The world is at a critical time, and possible tipping point, when it comes to the use of drones. ... The Security Council is missing in action; the international community, willingly or not, stands largely silent,” Callamard, an independent investigator, told Reuters.

 

Callamard is due on Thursday to present her findings to the Human Rights Council, giving member states a chance to debate what action to pursue. The United States is not a member of the forum, having quit two years ago.

Soleimani, leader of the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, was a pivotal figure in orchestrating Iran’s campaign to drive U.S. forces out of Iraq, and built up Iran’s network of proxy armies across the Middle East. Washington had accused Soleimani of masterminding attacks by Iranian-aligned militias on U.S. forces in the region.

“Major General Soleimani was in charge of Iran military strategy, and actions, in Syria and Iraq. But absent an actual imminent threat to life, the course of action taken by the U.S. was unlawful,” Callamard wrote in the report.

The Jan. 3 drone strike was the first known incident in which a nation invoked self-defense as a justification for an attack against a state actor in the territory of a third country, Callamard added.

 

Iran retaliated with a rocket attack on an Iraqi air base where U.S. forces were stationed. Hours later, Iranian forces on high alert mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian passenger airliner taking off from Tehran.

Iran has issued an arrest warrant for U.S. President Donald Trump and 35 others over Soleimani’s killing and has asked Interpol for help, Tehran prosecutor Ali Alqasimehr said on June 29, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.

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The man was on the terrorist list of most wanted. He's the one who choose to

follow his ego out in public like everyone loves me. Sorry it doesn't work like that.

The world has become a better place without him spreading terror around the region.

Cudos to Trumpt for having the guts to take him out.

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Agnes Callamard, U.N. special rapport[eur] is a French Human Rights Activist. In other words, if Trump nicked Solemani's little pinky fingernail, she would claim it was a Human Rights violation. The UN is controlled by third world despots and dictators that do not have any interest in their primary  mission. Rather they are in it to spread the wealth amongst themselves. The UN will not try to arrest Trump because we are not part of the UN Court System and as such have declared no US Citizen can be tried by the UN. If the UN were to try to capture and arrest a sitting President or former President (even 0Bummer) it would be seen as an act of war.

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40 minutes ago, horsesoldier said:

If they just strangled the entire delegation until they ALL reached the correct shade of Blue that matched the Ink in the 🖊 pens used to sign on The dotted line: that might create the incentive to move this thing along ? 

 

Holy 💩 crap ! Thinking about articles in another thread and posted in this thread. Must’ve blacked out ! On the other hand, it does kinda break up your day.

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Washington is responding to the United Nations about the assassination of Qassem Soleimani
 

Baghdad - people  

The US Department of Defense confirmed that the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani, was "planning terrorist attacks targeting American interests and other countries before targeting him."  

A ministry official told Al-Hurra and its satellite channel, Nass (July 8, 2020), that "the killing of Soleimani was a service to the stability of the region, and Tehran's hand stopped destabilizing the security of the neighboring countries," adding that "targeting him" was within the framework of the strategy to target terrorists in the world. " .  

This was in response to the statements of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on executions and extrajudicial killings Agnes Calamard, who said Monday that Soleimani's killing was "illegal".  

Soleimani was killed in early January by a raid of an American march plane that targeted a car he was traveling in with the leader of the Iraqi popular crowd, Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis.  

The United States has repeatedly said that Soleimani is responsible for attacks targeting American soldiers in Iraq and other areas, and that he was planning to target its forces in the region.  

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America is responding to a United Nations report that considers the assassination of Sulaymani illegal


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America is responding to a United Nations report that considers the assassination of Sulaymani illegal

 

 

 

The US State Department responded today, Wednesday, to the report of the United Nations Special Investigator, Agnes Calamard, who said that the assassination of Iran's Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani by the United States in Iraqi territory was "illegal".

"The report is tendentious and undermines human rights by giving it a passport to terrorists," State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagos told media Al-Mirbad commented on the report of the UN Special Investigator.

Ortagos added that the Calamard report "proves once again the correctness of the United States leaving the council," referring to the United Nations Human Rights Council that Agnes is operating under his umbrella.

The investigator, Agnes Calamard, said yesterday that the American raid in Iraq, which killed the commander of the Iranian Quds Force, Iranian Revolutionary Guards Qassem Soleimani, and nine other people, violated international law.

The United States has failed to provide sufficient evidence of a continuing or imminent attack against its interests to justify the raid against Soleimani's convoy upon leaving Baghdad airport, Calamard added.

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6 hours ago, yota691 said:

America is responding to a United Nations report that considers the assassination of Sulaymani illegal


6 hours ago

America is responding to a United Nations report that considers the assassination of Sulaymani illegal

 

 

 

The US State Department responded today, Wednesday, to the report of the United Nations Special Investigator, Agnes Calamard, who said that the assassination of Iran's Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani by the United States in Iraqi territory was "illegal".

"The report is tendentious and undermines human rights by giving it a passport to terrorists," State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagos told media Al-Mirbad commented on the report of the UN Special Investigator.

Ortagos added that the Calamard report "proves once again the correctness of the United States leaving the council," referring to the United Nations Human Rights Council that Agnes is operating under his umbrella.

The investigator, Agnes Calamard, said yesterday that the American raid in Iraq, which killed the commander of the Iranian Quds Force, Iranian Revolutionary Guards Qassem Soleimani, and nine other people, violated international law.

The United States has failed to provide sufficient evidence of a continuing or imminent attack against its interests to justify the raid against Soleimani's convoy upon leaving Baghdad airport, Calamard added.


Who knows, she could have received a sweet sum of money to go after Trump.  
 

This could also lead to the pastors dream posted last week in DV.  Russian and Chinese forces, rounding up certain people, with U.N. members.  
 

Who knows.  

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Trump is on a roll with getting the USA out of these phony America hating world organizations. We should have gotten out of this terrorist organization many years ago. The UN does more harm to a country than a lot of the local terrorist groups do. I will never forget reading about all the murders an rapes in Africa they committed years ago. 

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 I will never forget reading about all the murders an rapes in Africa they committed years ago. 

 

 

The UN rapists attended the Clinton library and massage parlor to learn the proper way to commit the rape. Wonder if any of the UN guys got a ride on the Lolita Express with ole "Slick Willie"??

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 7/20/2020 04:34:46
 

Shafak News / The United States rejected, on Friday, its Foreign Minister, Mike Pompeo, criticism of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, regarding Washington's assassination of the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Qassem Soleimani.

Pompeo described the results of the United Nations as wrong, stressing that his country was transparent about the international legal framework for the strike against Soleimani.

The head of American diplomacy stressed that the United States is ready to continue to defend its diplomats, its military, and all Americans.

Pompeo saw that the air strike on the convoy of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards General Qassem Soleimani had become a "deterrent factor" against the background of Iran's threat to US national interests.

Agnes Calamard, the United Nations special rapporteur on the investigation of extrajudicial executions, has described the American raid in which Iranian General Soleimani was killed as a "violation of international law."

Calamard said that the United States, by targeting Soleimani, violated the UN Charter, pointing in a report in this regard that the American side did not provide any evidence that General Soleimani was threatening American interests in the region.

The US President, Donald Trump, ordered the air strike that killed the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Qassem Soleimani, near Baghdad International Airport on January 3, while he was killed in the bombing by Abu Mahdi, the leading engineer in the Iraqi Popular Mobilization and others.

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Agnes Calamard, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on arbitrary extrajudicial killings, stressed that the international community must now assess the development, expansion and escalation of drone use legally.

"The assassination of General Qassem Soleimani is the first precedent of its kind for a drone attack against a representative of the armed forces of a country in another country by a country that claims self-defense as a justification for the attack," Calamard was quoted as saying in an interview translated by the Al-Maalouma agency.

"Under international law, drone killings can be justified in certain circumstances - and most importantly in the case of self-defense, but the criteria for an imminent threat are crucial in determining whether they have acted in self-defense or not," she added.

And she added that "the so-called proactive self-defense is very narrow, because there must be an immediate urgent necessity that does not leave any option for other means or discussion and it is unlikely that this will be achieved in the case of General Qassem Soleimani."

And she continued, "The United States has not provided any evidence so far that General Qassim Soleimani was specifically planning to launch an imminent attack on American interests, especially in Iraq, which requires immediate action."

For his part, Professor Kevin John Heller, a professor of international law at the Danish University of Konken, said that “the legitimacy of any attack depends on the speed of the threat that must be avoided.” As for the head of the disarmament project for the Dutch peace organization, Wim Zwingenberg, the “justifications presented by the United States for their attack do not include any evidence However, the threats were imminent, and they had no source. "

On the other hand, Rachel Van Landingham, a retired US Army lieutenant colonel, said, “To conduct a strict legal assessment of a drone strike, one needs to know what decision makers considered it imminent, and that is what the United States doesn’t fully share, and therefore cannot do A profile that can be supported based on information that you do not own. ”

"The United States embarrassedly wrongly publicly justified this attack, thereby losing its soft power, undermining the legitimacy of the United States, and thus weakening American national security," she added.

Agnes Calamard, the UN rapporteur, called for greater accountability for the targeted killings legally, as well as a greater regulation of the weapons used. Ended / 25 z

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