Top UN official threatens U.S. officers with “criminal liability”

GENEVA — In a tweet storm of more than two dozen posts, a top United Nations official declared the U.S. airstrike on Iranian terror mastermind Qassem Suleimani “unlawful,” saying it “violates international human rights law,” and she threatened U.S. officers with “criminal liability.” (Click here for links.)

Agnes Callamard, the UN Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions, also tweeted about “World War III” in a tweet calling on UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to use “legal tools” against the United States. Her reaction sharply contrasted with that of former UN chief Ban Ki-Moon, who following the U.S. killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011 said that he was “very much relieved by the news that justice has been done to such a mastermind of international terrorism.” "Callamard's tweet storm ignored Suleimani’s personal and ongoing role in directing terror attacks throughout the region, including the killing of more than 500,000 men, women and children in Syria, Iraq and Yemen," said Neuer, "including many hundreds of protesters this year in Iraq and Iran." "If Bin Laden was a mastermind of international terrorism, as Ban Ki-moon noted, then Suleimani was the Olympic champion of masterminds of international terrorism." -- More...

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