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Press Release: Scotland Yard to investigate Tony Blair and ex-Attorney General Peter Goldsmith for war crimes

Press Conference,
Room C, 1 Parliament Street
Tuesday 15th January 2008 3pm

John McDonnell MP, Chris Coverdale: International War Law Expert and Annie Machon of the Campaign to Make War History brief MPs and the media on allegations of war crimes committed against the people of Iraq by Britain's former Prime Minister and former Attorney General.

Officers from Scotland Yard have commenced a criminal investigation into the deaths of Iraqi citizens killed during the armed invasion and occupation of Iraq. The Metropolitan Police are acting in response to crimes reported by peace activists from We Are Change UK and The Campaign to Make War History. In an unprecedented step, the case was handed to the War Crimes division of the Counter Terrorism branch who are now investigating allegations of 14 criminal offences committed by Tony Blair, Lord Goldsmith and others. The offences are under the International Criminal Court Act 2001, which came into effect under English common law, just two days before 9/11.

Two Members of We Are Change UK and a representative from the Campaign to Make War History were interviewed for six hours at Belgravia Police station on the 20th December 2007. Evidence was provided to the police relating to the crimes of:-

• genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and conduct ancillary to these crimes under Sections 51 and 52 of The International Criminal Court Act 2001.

• a crime against peace and complicity in a crime against peace under Articles 6 and 7 of The Nuremburg Principles.

• murder, incitement to murder and conspiracy to murder under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861.

• conspiracy to commit genocide, a crime against humanity and war crimes under the Criminal Law Act 1977.

For more information, please contact:

press@wearechange.org.uk

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Rory's Comment: Hardly surprising but still worthy of note: this parliamentary press conference was ignored entirely by the British MSM which is itself deeply complicit in the war crimes committed by the UK's political leaders and military. Blair continues to be feted by a fawning press.

We must assume that his reason for converting to Roman Catholicism was to afford himself the convenience of confessing his crimes, a desperate attempt perhaps to wash the blood off his hands. And what of earthly laws?

The Rule of Law recognizes that no one is immune from the law. Everyone is supposedly equal before the law ... except in reality, in the Animal Farm that is Britain in 2008, some remain more equal than others.

So it remains to be seen just how far this police investigation will be allowed to progress before being quashed from on high.