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Screaming Headlines…
Liberal Media: Ex-Party turns on President before election - "In a rare bipartisan partnership, a Democrat and Republican have referred a current US President to the International Criminal Court. Both deny the unprecedented move is a ploy to make the upcoming election a two-horse race.
"'This is about justice. A grave miscarriage of justice has occurred and we are not confident that President Fitzgerald Grant will investigate a situation that would reveal the extent of his culpability,' Governor Samuel Reston said.
He added, "It is important that as the world's only remaining superpower, we don't set ourselves above the laws we expect others to follow. This is not an indictment; all we want is for the actions of our President to be investigated under the due process of the law with evidence to substantiate his claim that the civilian pharmaceutical factory he bombed, was in fact a chemical weapons factory.'
Right-wing Media: President is a War Criminal! – 'Republican front-runner Sally Langston has led the charge in getting an investigations started on President Fitzgerald's crimes in Lushan.
"'It is clear to me, as someone who has worked closely with the Grant Administration, that President Grant will not admit his mistakes. That is why he married his personal crisis manager, but this crisis cannot be fixed by brushing it under the carpet. President Grant has committed a crime against humanity and we are obligated by our standing in the world community to respect
t the rule of law, even if it is only international law,' Sally Langston told media groups yesterday."'Yes, show us the proof. An Independent President should not be independent of accountability to Congress or the American Public…or of course the world community,' she added…'
"Fitz—"
"No."
"No?" Olivia turned from her seat behind Fitz's desk, and looked over at him standing by the window.
Turning his gaze from the Rose Garden, he faced her with a rueful smile. "No, Liv, we're not calling Cyrus.
Closing the file on the notes she'd been making to give his legal team, Olivia pushed back the chair and went to stand before him, sliding her arms around his waist. "We need Cyrus. He knows about your meeting at the Lodge."
He gathered her closer. "We can't call Cyrus. He's the reason I'm in this mess. It'll get worse if he admits his complicity with Hollis. Besides, he wasn't in the room when I was talking to Sally and Sam."
"You're not punishing Cyrus, you're punishing yourself."
He looked at her solemnly. "We're not calling Cyrus. You know this a publicity stunt. The ICC has never opened a formal investigation without our approval. Sally and Sam know it. They are attempting to create as much hype as possible to put me through a trial by media."
"Or get a conviction in the court of public opinion. This is not a time to call it quits, Fitz. You can't let them get away with this."
Fitz lifted his hands to Olivia's face with a wry smile. "I'm not calling it quits."
"Then it's time for Plan B."
"What's Plan B?"
News Update…
"Lushan welcomed news that US President Fitzgerald Grant had been referred to the International Criminal Court for Crimes against Humanity and Peace.
"Speaking to the press in the Lushan Capital this morning, the Lushan President said he was pleasantly surprised by the 'initiative for justice and integrity' against a sitting US President.
"'President Grant is a war criminal of the first order. He attacked a factory in the middle of our city with 75 missiles. If that factory was making chemical weapons, dangerous nerve gas would have escaped into our suburbs causing more deaths than his 75 missiles.
"It was an ugly, ugly crime that has endangered many, many lives. Not just the employees who were killed and injured in the attack but he has deprived many on the African continent of essential, affordable medicine. The United States must be held accountable for this; the American President must be held accountable for violating international law – he must be indicted for committing an act of aggression…"
"Dad's going to jail as a war criminal?" Jerry frowned
"The International Criminal Court can only issue arrest warrants if they find evidence to support the application," Rowan explained. "They can't jail anyone." He held up his hand stalling Jerry's next question, "Even if the ICC issues an arrest warrant, the United States hasn't ratified the Rome Statute which set up the court, which means we don't have to cooperate with any investigation."
"So Dad won't get arrested?" Karen asked, hugging Poppy to her.
"No, Karen, he won't."
"Because we're not going to give the courts the evidence they need to arrest Dad," Jerry muttered.
Rowan paused, then said evenly, "The rule of law isn't always about justice, Jerry. And this isn't about justice."
"I need a gotdamn phone," Hollis said after a night on cardboard, and a meal from the neighbourhood soup kitchen under his sagging belt. "Where in hell's name can you find a public phone?"
"You need to get arrested for that. You get a bed, a meal and a free phone call."
"How do you get arrested?"
"Hell, Texas, you really are green around the gills. All you need to do to get arrested around here is stand in front of a cop doing nothing and he'll beat the shit out of ya because he can. If you ain't dead, they'll put you in lockup for free food and board. But most times now, they just skip the meal and board in favour of a body bag. You'd be one less vagrant on the streets."
"Mack, I need to call my family."
"Well, if they that concerned about you. They'll come looking for you. Just sit tight."
"Mack!" Hollis grabbed the other man by his coat. "They won't come lookin' for me! They think I'm dead! But I ain't dead!"
"Get off me, man! This is here is my best jacket!" Mack tried to push Hollis back.
Then they both paused as a cop car pulled up next to them and two cops got out, putting on their caps, and pulling their batons out.
"This hobo bothering you?" One of the cops asked Hollis.
"He's a hobo too!" Mack shot back, earning himself a whack of a baton on the side of his head.
"Hey!" Hollis dragged Mack back. "Don't you know the hell difference between a widget and a wangdoodle? I'm the one tryin' to get arrested around here! Just quit with police brutality on Mack, and arrest me!"
The cops stared, taken aback.
Hollis glanced over his shoulder at Mack. "Man, these guys are so slow they'd gain weight walkin." Then turning back to the cops, he yelled, "What are you bozos waiting for?! Arrest me! I ain't got time to stand here waitin' for assholes to grow a brain."
The cops looked at Hollis, then at each other and pulled out their Tasers, just as a car drew up next to them, with a group of teenagers hanging out of the window holding up their phones.
"Hey, beat it!" One of the cops yelled at the kids.
"No way, we've been following you guys all day for this!" One of the kids yelled back. "Say cheese!"
The cops swore, then charged at the kids who drove out of reach, skidded to a halt and revved its engine.
As the cops dashed into their car to give chase, Hollis turned to Mack, "You okay?"
"Yeah," Mack gave a hoarse laugh. "I forgot to tell you the chances of me getting beat up are better than yours, thanks to my natural tan."
"Your ear's swellin' up, we need to get you to a hospital."
"Man you must be from another planet. The government only has money for war and bank bailouts, not no free clinics, doctors and shit. I'll be fine. This ain't the first time I had a run in with the cops and it won't be the last."
Abby Whelan stood outside the gates of the Penitentiary waiting for Governor Reston's ex-wife to emerge.
Joan Reston paused while taking her first steps to freedom. "You came to see me in prison…with Sam's file. You work for Ms Pope…"
Abby responded with a non-committal smile. "Bet you're glad to be out of there."
Joan gave a short bitter laugh. "Sam took his time putting in a good word for me with the new Governor. Frankly, I'm surprised. I was expecting him to get the Parole Board to lock me up and throw away the key but I'm guessing I'll be more useful to Sam on the outside."
"It wasn't Sam Reston who had a word with the Governor."
"Oh?"
"Let's just say the guy was shown conclusive evidence of why he should find you innocent."
"You showed him the file?"
"Let's just say Sam's replacement is known to have several bad habits – we took advantage of them and recorded him in the act; literally getting high in office with his pants down."
"He was Sam's pick to be Governor," Joan smirked. "They're personal friends."
"That's why he wanted to avoid any adverse publicity. He agreed that a full pardon and your passport out of the country would be in Sam Reston's best interests." Abby paused, "Have you got your passport?"
Joan eyed Abby warily. "I had my lawyers send it over to me at the Governor's request. Where am I going?"
"We need to get you to a country with no extradition treaty with the Unite States."
"Why?"
"Because you are going to defame Sam Reston with the truth, and you need to be out of reach if he decides to take you to court."
"The Governor knows this."
"No."
Joan stared at Abby, then glanced away into the distance. "I'm guessing that attorney-client privilege prevents your firm from releasing what you know."
"Yes."
Joan turned back to face Abby. "I'll do it."
Abby shot her a look of surprise. "I thought I'd have to twist your arm to get you to agree."
"There's nothing you could do to me that hasn't already been done. Now I'd like Sam to share the pain, even if that pain is merely losing another Presidential election."
Screaming Headlines in the Rightwing tabloids:
Sam Reston, a murderer? Joanne Reston, Governor Reston's ex-wife has accused Reston of shooting her lover and framing her for his murder. Mrs Reston spoke to the media yesterday in a video conference from an unknown location, shortly after her early release from prison…
Ex-wife accuses Presidential candidate of murder: Governor Samuel Reston's ex-wife has accused the Presidential Candidate of the shooting death of her lover. Mrs Reston who was convicted of the same crime, was given a Governor's pardon for an early release on her 10-year sentence...
I have served my time, now it's his turn: Joanne Reston, ex-wife of Presidential Candidate, Samuel Reston said that she is culpable of the murder of her then-lover. "I cried rape, and got an innocent man killed." She then went on to make the sensational claim that Reston who pulled the trigger with the intent to murder...
[Total avoidance of topic in Liberal press.]
Wikileaks Twitter: FBI whistleblower leaks secret email revealing GOP presidential candidate's links to illegal anti-gay drug. More: .Daniel-Douglas-Langston-email/ …
"My dear Olivia,
"Time to cut and run. As the song says, 'This town ain't big enough for the both of us'.
"I should stick around and help clean up the mess my dear wife has made of this great nation of ours but since I helped turn Sally into the crazy lady she is today, I feel my work is done.
"By now, you, and the rest of the country, would know that Sally has been spending my inheritance on finding a cure for my 'Godless' tendencies to love men. They'll be saying the woman has been funding a drug which increases psychopathy in the human mind. What you may not know is that Sally has been using me as a guinea pig for an unauthorised drug trial. And what she does not know is that I've been feeding her the same pills, ever since I found out about her involvement with Global Unity.
"Did the drug turn me crazy? Did the drug turn Sally crazy? I wouldn't say that. I'd say that it helps bring out the bad in all of us without any guilt. I want to make that clear— the drug enhances the evil in us, but it doesn't inject what isn't there – so when my wife sees a copy of this email, don't let her blame the drugs for what she has done. They are only partly to blame, a small part.
"As for our own very beautiful friendship, my dear, I'm hoping that you bear no ill will towards me for taking you night-swimming in the Potomac. If you hadn't panicked, you'd have known you were safe. I wasn't going to drown you. Not when I had a guy who was willing to pay me a princely sum to have you as his lover. But I'm not one to hold a grudge. Not when you've done a spectacular job of exposing my wife for the disaster she is.
Until we meet again,
Daniel Douglas-Langston'
Screaming Headlines in Liberal press:
Sally Langston in anti-gay drug scandal: Sally Langston is accused of using an illegal anti-gay drug on her husband, Daniel Douglas-Langston. The explosive accusation is contained in an email by Douglas-Langston himself to First Lady Olivia Pope-Grant on the Wikileaks website…
GOP leader drugged and dangerous: Wikileaks releases secret email that reveals GOP leader Sally Langston's psychotic behaviour while acting President was partly due to an illegal anti-gay drug. Langston has been accused of using the drug on her husband, missing for months.
Is Olivia in Wikileaks email, First Lady Olivia Pope-Grant?: A Wikileaks email reveals secrets about GOP presidential candidate Sally Langston's family life and anti-gay activities. The email addressed to 'Olivia' with references to 'night-swimming in the Potomac' have led to speculation that it was writing by Sally Langston's missing husband to First Lady Olivia Pope-Grant. Neither Mrs Langston nor the First Lady's office had responded to our requests by the time this story went to print...
[Total avoidance of topic in Rightwing tabloids.]
Olivia didn't look up from the documents on her desk when she heard Fitz enter her new office. She bit back a smile, pretending not to notice when she heard him lock the door.
There was a pause, then Fitz sat down in the visitor's chair and reached for the stress ball on her desk.
"I've asked for an arrest warrant to be issued against the FBI leaker under the Espionage Act."
"What?" Olivia stopped pretending to read, and looked up outraged.
Fitz grinned. "I just wanted to get your attention." He tossed the ball in the air, adding "How is Joanne enjoying her tropical paradise?"
"From the tan and the cocktail in her hand, I'd say she's having the best time. The guy we've got watching her, sent Abby a photograph to confirm that she's safe," Olivia murmured, watching him. "I hear Sam's trying to find out where she is so he can shut her up with a lawsuit."
"Do you think Daniel's on a tropical island?"
"Not unless there's a game reserve where he can shoot things."
Fitz caught the stress ball one last time and placed it on the table. Then he stood up and came round to her side, lifting her out of her seat.
"Fitz…" Olivia said, half-heartedly. "We can't…"
"We've made out on my desk. It's only fair we get to make out on yours. Besides sex will make you relax."
"I'm not stressed."
"You have a stress ball."
"It was a gift."
"I'll give you an even better gift."
She snuffled a laugh. Smiling he kissed her.
"Did you lock the door?" she murmured reaching for his belt buckle.
"Yes, ma'am," he whispered, biting down gently on her lip.
"We need to steal a phone." Hollis said, as he and Mack pushed their shopping trolleys down the street.
"You need to steal a phone. I ain't stealing nothing, on account that I'll get killed."
Hollis looked at Mack, "Look, Mack, I got my ox in a ditch and your paranoia ain't helpin'."
Mack stopped on the sidewalk. "My paranoia? My paranoia? You remember when they shot that homeless dude for carrying a pen knife? Shot him 46 times! The cops didn't even get no citation! Yeah, that's the rule of law around here. The cops can get away with murder and there ain't nothing no one wants to do about it. That ain't my paranoia!"
"A hobo getting shot 46 times is news to me."
"That would be on account that you are white. White people only read the news when they're the victim. This ain't one of them stories."
Hollis looked at Mack. "Why do you make everything about race? Not everything is about race, Mack."
"Says every white dude who ain't never been black."
Hollis gusted a sigh. "I ain't going to keep hollerin' down this well. You keep watch for them bastard cops, and I'll go steal a phone from that convenience store."
"Changed your mind about getting arrested?"
"Hell, no. That's my bonus option."
Mack waited on the other side of the road as Hollis came out carrying a bottle of milk, bread, a jar of jalapenos, chips, and a flashlight with no batteries.
"They sell prepaid cards, but no phones," Hollis said. "But the hick behind the counter called the cops, so maybe I'll get lucky this time."
They waited on the sidewalk, eating chips and bread with jalapenos, sharing the bottle of milk waiting for the cops to arrive.
A cop car eventually crawled up towards them. The cops didn't even bother getting out of the car to say, "The convenience store across the road reported a theft. Said some homeless guy just walked in and walked out with half the store but didn't pay for a damn thing."
The cop doing all the talking looked at Mack, who gave a grunt of laughter shaking his head.
Hollis rolled his eyes. "He ain't the one who did the stealin'. I'll confess, so you can go right ahead and arrest me"
The cops looked at each other. "You been taking your medicine?"
"What?"
"Just take your medicine, man, and stay out of the convenience store. We don't want to be hauling your ass off to jail." They warned before driving off.
Hollis stared after them open-mouthed. "What do you have to do around here to get arrested?"
"I don't know Texas. White people stole this country from the Indians and they got a Thanksgiving Celebration. All I have to do is be black, I don't even have to be breathing to be arrested."
Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court releases copy of letter sent to complainants [edited excerpt]:
The evidence submitted by the applicants on this matter, indicate that a civilian establishment was targeted by the State Party, but the number of minor casualties indicate that civilians themselves were not the target.
With several facts yet to be determined, there is insubstantial evidence to determine whether the attack was clearly excessive to 'military necessity'. However we note, that the State Party under investigation has initiated proceedings for further discovery.
After due diligence appropriate within the analysis phase, the Office has decided there is no reasonable basis to believe that a crime has been committed within the Court's jurisdiction.
Lushan President holds press conference in Lushan Capital
"This is most disappointing that the ICC is unable to catch the sharks; they can only pursue minnows. They focus on African world leaders while ignoring the greater misdeeds of Western leaders. They do not even get their day in court. Not even a slap on the wrist. The ICC says the US has the capacity to investigate itself, therefore a so-called independent court is not required to do that. I too have the capacity to investigate myself and find myself innocent of all crimes but that would not be acceptable to the ICC. Hailemariam Desalegn, the Ethiopian Prime Minister, once accused the ICC of hunting Africans – this is the truth. Nearly 40 individuals have been indicted in nine situations by the ICC – every single one of them has been an African– all of them! How can this corrupt court investigate corruption on a truly global scale? This is a sad day, a very sad for international justice indeed.
Press release issued by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission
The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission (KLWCC) will initiate an investigation into a war crimes complaint made against US President Fitzgerald Grant by the Lushan government.
The claims of Crimes against Humanity and Peace will be investigated in compliance with international law and the Nuremberg Charter, and will be free from the pro-UN Security Council bias that makes the ICC ineffective on a truly global scale.
Media Report on Press Release…
"We have a duty to investigate war criminals," said the chairman of the Commission, when asked why the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission (KLWCC) was investigating a sitting American President when the KLWCC was essentially a private organisation established under Malaysian law, without a United Nations mandate.
"The United States is not exempt from international law or the Geneva Conventions, but for decades it has escaped any legal scrutiny of its own actions because no action is taken by the ICC without US approval, and it is clear that successive United States governments have been reluctant to hold its leaders accountable."
While confirming that the remedies available to the court were 'toothless' he added, "We cannot arrest them, we cannot detain them, and we cannot subject them to Capital Punishment. Yet, there is one punishment that we can give – most leaders don't want to go down in history as war criminals."
The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal was set up in 2008, to prosecute cases that the ICC refuses. Since inception, it has made clear its intentions to pursue all and any complaints made against the worst perpetrators of war crimes – the United States and Israel…
Leaving Fitz on the phone with the Malaysian Prime Minister, Olivia made her way to the Executive Residence to say goodnight to the kids.
Teddy was already in the land of dreams, but Karen wanted assurance that what Rowan had told them at dinner was true – that Fitz couldn't be arrested and jailed by the KLWCC. Olivia stayed until Karen was convinced of this truth, then tucked her in bed with Poppy by her side, before heading off to see Jerry.
She was about to tap on his bedroom door, when she heard a voice say forcefully, "Let my dad help your dad!"
"I don't want anyone helping my dad. He shouldn't get a free pass on his crimes just because he's President."
"He's your dad, Jer, I would do anything to help my dad."
"You might change your mind about that, if your dad drops 75 missiles on a medicine factory, Pete."
Olivia pushed the door open and marched in. "Jerry!"
"Mom!" Jerry slammed his laptop shut, nearly falling off the bed, then he glared at her. "Were you listening in on me? That's an invasion of my privacy!"
"Jerry, there are laws in this country that say I can invade your privacy anytime I want because I work for the government, but as your Mom, you need to know that you don't have any privacy in this house."
Jerry stayed frowning, shaking his head at her. "Jeez, Mom, do you have to sound like Dad? I liked you better before he brainwashed you."
Olivia sat on the bed, facing him. "I need to speak to Pete."
"Why?"
"I heard Pete say he wants his dad to help Fitz."
"I don't want him helping Dad, and Pete's my friend."
Olivia reached out to take Jerry's hand. "Jer, your father made a mistake. If he's found guilty by this war tribunal, he'll have to quit his job. Then you have to decide if you want Sally Langston running this country again, or Samuel Reston. In case you missed it, he's the guy who held a gun and shot a man dead himself, then sent his wife to prison for it."
Ten minutes later, Olivia walked into the Oval Office with Jerry by her side, still in his pajamas.
Fitz gave them a quizzical look as he finished speaking on the phone, but Olivia got in first, asking him about the phone call.
"The Malaysian Prime Minister is trying to nip the investigation in the bud because he doesn't want the KLWCC setting a precedent in nuking bilateral relations with all their allies. I've assured him that this hasn't damaged his ties with us."
"Helps that the United States is Malaysia's biggest investor."
"That's not helping me at the moment, Liv. Big Business loves Sally, not me. They're probably sending gift baskets to the investigating judges on the Tribunal with little love notes telling them to keep at it." Then Fitz glanced at Jerry who was listening to all this in silence. "Have you come for your goodnight kiss?"
Jerry blushed, then said defensively, "Mom wants me to help save your ass."
"With Pete's help."
"With Pete's dad's help," Jerry corrected.
Olivia nodded. "Big Business in America may not love you, but Malaysian business wants you here. Pete says you made a lot of friends during your last ASEAN trip, not just with his dad."
Fitz looked at Olivia, then at Jerry, then he murmured, "Want to stick around while I put a conference call through to Pete and his dad?"
Jerry shrugged. "Whatevs." He looked bored but he was anything but, when Mr Leong got on the line to say that he would use his considerable influence to help Fitz because of 'the many kindnesses' he'd shown his son.
Much later, Olivia wrapped her arm around Fitz, as they made their way to bed after seeing Jerry tucked up in his.
"We had this thing beat when I told the Lushan President that I would give a public apology and make reparations to the factory victims, including its owner and the Saudi charity that was raided. He's going to withdraw his application, and the Commission will not have much to go on with Lushan refusing to cooperate on further evidence."
"You can thank me later," Olivia murmured.
"You can bet I intend to," Fitz chuckled kissing her temple. Then after a pause, he added, "So what was all that with Jerry?"
"I wanted Jerry to get off his high horse. It's easy to take the moral high ground when you don't have to deal with mess of conflicting information."
"I was drunk and I didn't listen to you."
"Especially when you're drunk and you don't listen to me."
Fitz grunted a laugh, bending to kiss her lips, whispering, "How tired are you?"
"Very, very tired," she teased.
"Livvie, I'm just full of gratitude right now."
"You are shameless." She laughed, taking hold of his tie and tugging him into the room and locking the door behind them.
A/N: Thank you to everyone who enjoyed the story about my dad! Loved your very kind, very sweet responses ;D.
Also one of you messaged me with a very important question: how pregnant is Olivia? And I had to admit I had no idea. Mostly because I'm writing events in a sequence of days when they really should take months, years or decades. So in actuality if this wasn't so Scandalously inaccurate (timewise as well as other things), there should be a third Olitz baby in the picture or Olitz should be grandparents.
But I do intend for Olivia to give birth during elections – so spoiler alert after I've spoiled it!
So besides the pregnancy detail, this chapter contains a whole lot my misunderstandings about the law – but seriously, I don't feel too bad about that considering what a joke it really is at both local and international levels.
For instance, Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir (who wanted Clinton to be investigated as a war criminal) became the first sitting president to be indicted by the ICC for directing a campaign of mass killing, rape, and pillage against civilians in Darfur. The conviction was handed down by the ICC 4 March 2009.
Yet Bush and Cheney escaped any kind of investigation for the murderous havoc they caused in Iraq, Afghanistan and their round-up of victims for the torture chambers in Guantanamo Bay.
Without referring to that heinous oversight, the main inspirations for the ICC inclusion in this chapter were:
Australian senator Andrew Wilkie : a couple of month ago, he wrote to the ICC accusing the current Australian government of Crimes against Humanity with regards to refugees. BTW he was the only Australian intelligence officer to resign after turning whistleblower about the bogus reasons for invading Iraq.
Then from my truly cursory understanding of international law, it seemed that Bush & Co 'unsigned' the US from the ICC in 2003 after Clinton signed up in 1998 (but didn't ratify). Guess they all wanted to avoid any chance of accountability. Anyway the 'unsigning' didn't prevent complaints about the US role in Iraq. As per Wikipedia: The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court reported in February 2006 that he had received 240 communications in connection with the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 which alleged that various war crimes had been committed. The overwhelming majority of these communications came from individuals and groups within the United States and the United Kingdom.
The 'unsigning' probably means the Sally and Sam scenario could never happen, but as per usual I've ignored that inconvenient truth. (As I did with the public phone scenario for Hollis- probably not that difficult to make a call).
What did actually happen was that Bush, Cheney and Blair were tried in Absentia by the KLWCC and found guilty of being war criminals in 2011.
BTW this is an actual quote Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad, ex-Malaysian Prime Minister and founder of the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission (KLWCC) which found Bush and Blair guilty of war crimes in 2011: "We cannot arrest them, we cannot detain them, and we cannot hang them the way they hanged Saddam Hussein. The one punishment that most leaders are afraid of is to go down in history with a certain label attached to them … In history books they should be written down as war criminals and this is the kind of punishment we can make to them".
The Lushan government backing down was taken from this quote in an article from (Sudan Says Clinton Is `A War Criminal' Its Leader Claimed The Bombed Plant Made Only Medicine.) – 'The American president has violated international law, and he meant to destroy a civilian establishment and to kill innocent people. He is a war criminal of the first degree,'' el-Bashir said. Despite the angry words, the Sudanese president said he would consider resuming relations with the United States if it ``compensates all those who were harmed in the factory attack and it publicly apologizes."
Other references were:
Footage shows homeless black man Milton Hall being shot at 46 times by police in the US
Two Years Later, No Charges After Police Kill Homeless Man in Barrage of 46 Shots
Sudan Says Clinton Is `A War Criminal' Its Leader Claimed The Bombed Plant Made Only Medicine.
Bush 'Unsigns' War Crimes Treaty
International Criminal Court and the 2003 invasion of Iraq
BUSH AND BLAIR TO BE TRIED FOR WAR CRIMES
Bush Convicted of War Crimes in Absentia
Obama DOJ Asks Court to Grant Immunity to George W. Bush For Iraq War
Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission
Asylum seekers: Andrew Wilkie takes Australia to international criminal court
Mississippi Governor Pardons 210, Including Murderers, Rapists
Mississippi Wisely Prevents Governor From Pardoning a Bunch of Murderers
The best non extradition countries to become invisible
What countries don't have extradition treaties with the US?
Omar al-Bashir
Imperialism didn't end. These days it's known as international law