Felicity Arbuthnot: Illegal Occupation of Iraq. US UK Crimes

against humanity. In 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 attention to just a few of the chilling events currently taking place in Iraq under the US UK's despotic, imposed puppet Prime Minister. First, here is a list of prisons, detention facilities, interrogation centers 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. On 3rd January 2013, Nur al Maliki carried out the death sentence on Ahmed al Samarrai, and two other men from Mosul, on charges of his resisting the US and Iran occupation. Resisting an unlawful occupation is, of course, a legal right. His body was not delivered to his family. A funeral will take place in his honor in Anbar and elsewhere in Iraq. Should you question the US occupation since they pulled out last December, just see the Vatican City size US embassy and its thousands of mercenaries, intelligence operators, and nefarious other spooks and enforcers. Early this 4th January, al Maliki forces, wearing all black clothing, entered Taji Prison, and took one hundred prisoners from the western city of Ramadi to an unidentified place. Death squads come to mind again. Al Maliki has also ordered an on sight shoot to kill policy toward protesters. By August 31st there had been ninety six executions in 2012, with twenty six people reportedly being executed on both the 27th and 29th August. Few details of those executed or their identities were released. They are simply the disappeared in the tradition of all despots. Iraq has a huge problem with torture and unfair trials, Human Rights Watch, who produced the report, pointed out. Thousands of women are detained, and subject to near routine torture and rape. They are often held with their children, and even with infants. Britain as co architect, and liar in chief on the reasons for the invasion has an absolute duty, with America, to bring to heel their out of control tyrannical government. Both countries have large embassies and the wherewithal to exert such pressure. Maliki is heading towards an incredibly destructive dictatorship, and it looks to me as though the Obama administration is waving him across the finishing line, Toby Dodge, Iran expert at the London School of Economics said earlier this year.