Viceroy Paul Bremer gave immunity to U.S. hired mercenaries in Iraq

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http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/136325/1/4536

GIs in Iraq Could Be Stripped of Immunity After Rape-Murder Allegations

Aaron Glantz
OneWorld US
Wed., Jul. 12, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 12 (OneWorld) - Iraq will ask the United Nations to end immunity from local law for U.S. troops, the country's human rights minister said on Monday, as the military named five soldiers charged in a rape-murder case that has outraged Iraqis.

According to the Pentagon, the indicted soldiers drank alcohol, abandoned their checkpoint, changed clothes to avoid detection and headed to a house, about 200 yards from a U.S. military checkpoint in Mahmoudiya, a poor slum on the outskirts of Baghdad. When they got there, the soldiers allegedly raped a 14-year-old girl and then killed the victim and her family to cover it up. snip

The United Nations mandate isn't the only barrier to prosecuting U.S. troops in Iraqi court, however. In order to file criminal proceedings against U.S. soldiers, the Iraqi government would need to overturn an edict signed by former U.S. Administrator Paul Bremer in June 2004. Before leaving the country Bremer signed Order 17, which protected U.S. soldiers and military contractors from being prosecuted in Iraq.

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1. IOW, the Iraqi government will have to act like a real, sovereign

government.

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It's a flying pig!