October 19, 2005

Spanish Judge Has a Don Quixote Moment

Now lets watch this peckerwood try and enforce it.

A Spanish judge has issued an international arrest order for three US soldiers whose tank fired at a Baghdad hotel during the war in Iraq, killing a Spanish journalist, a court official said Wednesday.

Jose Couso, who worked for the Spanish television network Telecinco, died April 8, 2003, after the tank crew fired a shell at the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad where many journalists were staying to cover the war.

The Spanish judge said he issued the arrest order because of a lack of judicial cooperation from the United States regarding the case.

US officials insist the soldiers believed they were being shot at when they opened fire.

Any doubt why President Bush has-quite rightfully-rejected the International Criminal Court?

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Posted by: Traderrob at 10:41 AM | Comments (15) | Add Comment
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1 They can't keep their own home-grown terrorists under check and they flip sides because of 1 bombing. Sure we'll hand over our soldiers to you. Sure. Ok. I'll get right on that. It still amazes me to hear people b*tch about us not listening to the int'l court. Personally I LIKE having my American rights that the rest of the world just drools over.

Posted by: Impatient GIrl at October 19, 2005 11:34 AM (z2tgL)

2 The judge is welcome to try to come get them. Well be sure to post his arrival time at the nearest airport in GA, NC, or TX. http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2005/10/you-want-em-come-and-get-em.html

Posted by: CDR Salamander at October 19, 2005 12:40 PM (m64uD)

3 In a related move, Prime Minister Tony Blair has issued arrest warrants for Spanish nationals involved with building the Armada--whose intent was to inflict harm on citizens of Britain.

Posted by: insider at October 19, 2005 01:49 PM (hwr9z)

4 CDR, Make that Texas, please, as I wouldn't want to miss out on this one. I can see the conquistadors coming now! This is just silly, what can the Spanish be thinking about? Has the jihad overwhelmed them already?

Posted by: jesusland joe at October 19, 2005 06:49 PM (rUyw4)

5 Yes, jj, it has. I saw a thing on TV a while back about how wonderful everything is in Spain now, especially since they pretty much lifted all immigration restrictions on muslims. Spain will be an islamic theocracy within ten years, if that long.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at October 19, 2005 06:56 PM (0yYS2)

6 IM, Damn, I predicted that Sweden would be the first to fall. Then Belgium, Denmark, Norway, France, Germany, Britain, Spain, and last to fall Italy. Austria, just like before, will have to be militarily conquered. They are the only Europeans who remember their own history, and well they should, as the barbarians were at the gates of Vienna twice. Maybe the Poles will come to the rescue again, and perhaps the spirit of Sobieski still lives in the Polish people. That's about the only hope I have after what I saw at the WH this week. Bush is falling into the PC trap along with many others in the US. We will probably have a monumental struggle here as well. Oh, well, all I can say is get ready if you aren't.

Posted by: jesusland joe at October 19, 2005 07:23 PM (rUyw4)

7 He cant arrest a american citizen and we should prevent him from doing it this is a crime against our constitution we should tell the spanish judges to BUTT OUT

Posted by: sandpiper at October 19, 2005 08:44 PM (UwJcR)

8 Impy stroking the bore of the rifle, begging for Spanish fly

Posted by: Downing Street Memo at October 19, 2005 10:02 PM (WAdBy)

9 DSM So many of your comments are nothing more than personal insults (having nothing to do with topic) with clearly evident bizarre sexual themes. Is this some kind of Freudian thing with you.

Posted by: hondo at October 20, 2005 02:53 AM (bayez)

10 Being born in Spain I am ashamed of this.I am ashamed of seeing my country of birth going from the Azores between the USA and the UK to being between Cuba and Venezuela. This Judge is another of those leftist judges that populate the Spanish courts. Oh the shame, well there are still 10M Spaniards that did not voted for Zapatero and his new populist regime.

Posted by: VRP at October 20, 2005 09:16 AM (R+qmK)

11 Well, aparently there is more to the story that has not been published. The Prosecutor of the National Court has put forward a motion to paralize the order of the Judge (really a magistrate or investigating judge). Aparently, Judge Santiago Pedraz has jumped over the rules and put forward the order without the case having been approuved. The Prosecutor called the actions of the Judge "an act of revenge rather than a logical judicial procedure". Also now that the judge has been named (Santigo Pedraz) I known him to be a rather soft guy on terrorism, some of his behavior could be taken as aiding the terrorist (that is the home grown ETA).

Posted by: VRP at October 20, 2005 10:05 AM (R+qmK)

12 Thank you VRP for clarifying the situation and helping us remember that Spain is the home of El Cid. There is still a remnant of faithful in Spain. May God bless them!

Posted by: jesusland joe at October 20, 2005 10:36 AM (rUyw4)

13 DSM is a retard who likes getting banned. Apparently, he's not interested in girls, or drinking, or anything fun, although he does talk a lot about burning insects and small animals to death. He just needs to be killed for the good of humanity, but failing that, he will just get banned again.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at October 20, 2005 07:42 PM (0yYS2)

14 Or let the Greyrooster's boys find him. Which would set a better example for other scumbags.

Posted by: BigAl at October 23, 2005 05:19 PM (6krEN)

15 Yo, everybody there! I am a very proud Spanish, and so I would please ask all of you not to spill the beans all over us, here in Spain. We are not all so dumb retarded as this judge, or as our actual President. As VRP said, we are about 40% of the population who did not fall for all the downright lies told by the almost entirely leftist media after the Madrid train bombings, and didn't vote for that asshole we have as a President right now. Hopefully, every day more and more people seem to see how big a mistake was making him President, and hopefully he will be sacked soon. By the way, a few ABSOLUTELY REAL facts about Zapatero: - He spent quite a few years wandering around the Law department, trying to obtain a doctorate, but never managed to finish. - His former schoolfriends from Ponferrada (his hometown) say he was an absurdity of a human being, interested only in his appearance. - Although he is always bragging about how Franco's soldiers shot his grandfather during the war, few people know his mother-in-law owns a tobacco shop given to her by Franco himself as a compensation for the killing of her husband by the communists. - In a private conversation, former Socialist Prime Minister Felipe González compaired Zapatero to a "6-year-old driving a Masseratti at 160mph through a traffic jam".

Posted by: Javier at November 03, 2005 05:34 PM (+9TNn)

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