13-01-08 US legacy in Iraq - secret, unlawful detentions

You may recall some years ago, there were newspapers ads for qualified individuals to be hired by the US gov as part of its "nation building" efforts, to reconstruct the Iraqi justice system.  One of the first shows under the new system was Saddam Hussein's trial.  Now a later report. It looks like secret unlawful detention was one of the US legaices in Iraq.  jz

Illegal Occupation of Iraq: US-UK Crimes against Humanity
Open Letter to Foreign Secretary William Hague, M.P.,

By Felicity ArbuthnotJanuary 07, 2013 "Information Clearing House"

The Foreign Secretary,
The Rt. Hon., William Hague, M.P.,

And: To Whom it May Concern,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
London SW1.

Greetings,

In the light of the fact that it transpires that twenty seven Foreign Office lawyers concluded unanimously that the invasion of Iraq was illegal  I write to draw your attention to just a few of the the chilling events currently taking place in Iraq under the US-UK’s despotic, imposed, puppet Prime Minister.

Firstly, here is a list of prisons, detention facilities, interrogation centres and numbers of those held in each, as far as can be ascertained in the circumstances. As you will surely know people are routinely arbitrarily detained for weeks, months, even years, often without trial, and with one, usually under a totally inadequate or corrupt legal system. 

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