US Bars Entry to International Criminal Court Investigators

Re:US Bars Entry to International Criminal Court Investigators by dmix on Friday March 15, 2019 @03:36PM (#19403375)

I was just reading about this guy today who was a German citizen who was kidnapped from Macedonia and sent to a blacksite in Afghanistan and tortured for months:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_El-Masri

Why? His name was one-letter away from another suspect:

    Khalid El-Masri
    Khalid Al-Masri [1]

And the famous female CIA "queen of torture" decided on a hunch he could be the same guy, apparently against the wishes of her subordinates, and had him kidnapped.

I'm not a fan of ICC as a solution to this problem. But it's interesting that the people behind very obvious torture/kidnapping are going unpunished.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_al-Masri

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Re:US Bars Entry to International Criminal Court Investigators by Tomte on Friday March 15, 2019 @04:28PM (#19403969)

A really tragic case.

The CIA dropped him, dirty and in ragged clothes, on some country road in Albania. Where he was detained again, because he looked like a terrorist. (!)

He's obviously broken. After returning to Germany he committed violent crimes and was sentenced to prison.

No idea why the court did not send him to a psychiatric clinic.

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Re:US Bars Entry to International Criminal Court Investigators by detaro on Friday March 15, 2019 @04:51PM (#19404172)

And it's quite unsatisfying that the questions about what the German government knew when and did about it never got useful answers or consequences.

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Re:US Bars Entry to International Criminal Court Investigators by dmix on Friday March 15, 2019 @07:13PM (#19405205)

Or Macedonia.

Which may be an equally a relevant point to this topic.

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Re:US Bars Entry to International Criminal Court Investigators by selestify on Friday March 15, 2019 @04:46PM (#19404126)

This is literally the plot to Brazil... Life imitates art

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Re:US Bars Entry to International Criminal Court Investigators by benj111 on Friday March 15, 2019 @04:49PM (#19404153)

"I'm not a fan of ICC as a solution to this problem"

Why not, seems reasonable on the face of it.

Genuine question, not American, so maybe unaware of nuances.

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