Red Cross ultimatum to US on Saddam

[UpInArms]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1238263,00.html

Saddam Hussein must either be released from custody by June 30 or charged if the US and the new Iraqi government are to conform to international law, the International Committee of the Red Cross said last night.

Nada Doumani, a spokeswoman for the ICRC, told the Guardian: "The United States defines Saddam Hussein as a prisoner of war. At the end of an occupation PoWs have to be released provided they have no penal charges against them."

Her comments came as the international body, the only independent group with access to detainees in US custody, becomes increasingly concerned over the legal limbo in which thousands of people are being held in the run-up to the transfer of power at the end of the month.

The occupation officially ends on June 30 and US forces will be in Iraq at the invitation of its sovereign government.

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[Miss Authoritiva]

1. Limbo, limbo, limbo.

I'm sure Mr. Rumsfeld will come up with some legalistically torturous pseudo-phrase enabling the U.S. to keep Saddam in custody. Who's to stop him?

[jbfam4]

2. Rummy might say

Rules don't apply to presidents........no rules apply to bush!

[daleo]

3. Perhaps Bush will ask the Pope

For some kind of special Limbo passes. I believe they both talk to God, on a routine basis.

By the way, maybe "Triple-X" was actually Saddam, who had been captured, held secretly in Gitmo, then "re-captured" at a time convenient for Bushco.

[pinkpops]

4. OK, the folks in Britain have been told the news...

Any news about this in the USA?

[Joanne98]

5. But but but

What about the show trial we had planned for this summer? All Saddam all the time.

[PfcHammer]

6. I do hope Saddam gets his pistol back from *. n/t

[LesIsMoore]

7. As long as he registers it then it's OK by me

No citizen needs to roam the streets without some official force knowing they are armed.

[missile_bender]

8. The occupation is dead. Long

live the occupation.

Who do they think they are kidding? How does an occpuation end if the occupation forces don't leave? Eastern Europe was "liberated" after World War II, too.

[Jacobin]

9. smoke and mirrors for Smirky's hard core followers who believe

anything he says.

No one else in the entire universe believes its the end of occupation