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This past Tuesday, the United Nations released a lengthy, critical report on last winter’s three-week Gaza War. Unfortunately, the report contains evidence supporting the claim that both the Palestinian and Israeli delegations involved in the conflict committed war crimes and, according to The New York Times, “possibly crimes against humanity...
...threatens that these war crimes could eventually be brought before the organization’s International Criminal Court in The Hague if each party does not launch private investigations into their own actions within the next six months. But the U.N. should be less naive in its threats—as the United States sits on the Security Council, which decides whether certain cases will be brought to the world court, it would strongly hesitate to consent to a case against Israel. This case, then, is not something that would likely ever be brought to international trial, and threatening such...
...Most Vieques residents - who, as Puerto Ricans, are all U.S. citizens - would agree with Marrero. In 2007, more than 7,000 of them filed a federal suit, Sanchez v. United States, claiming that in the nearly 60 years after World War II that the Navy used a portion of the island as a firing range and weapons-testing ground it negligently exposed Vieques' population of 10,000 to dangerous levels of toxins. The community, according to several independent medical studies, has a cancer rate 30 times higher than that of Puerto Rico's main island to the west...
...Marrero says his job at Camp Garcia from 1970 to 1972 often entailed helping Navy officers test hazardous airborne chemicals on animals like goats. Many of the canisters he handled, he says, were labeled "112" for Project 112, a top-secret Cold War U.S. military program conducted between 1962 and 1973 that involved experiments with chemical and biological weapons. Project 112's records were finally declassified at the start of this decade, but the Pentagon as yet does not acknowledge a link between the chemical tests and the spate of illnesses suffered since then by servicemen like Marrero...
...Like Afghanistan too, out of that chaos arose an army of radical Islamist warriors who were determined to bring strict religious law and order to the country, but who were also open to funding from and cooperation with al-Qaeda. The first shots in what became known as the war on terror were fired by Somalia-based militants when they blew up the U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in Tanzania on Aug. 7, 1998, killing 213 and 11 people, respectively. But Afghanistan, and later Pakistan, became the focus of the militant Islamic threat after al-Qaeda leader...