{UAH} An accused war criminal now works security at a U.S. airport - CNN.com
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A CNN investigation found that Yusuf Abdi Ali, who is accused of committing atrocities while he was a military commander during Somalia's brutal civil war, has been living a quiet life near the nation's capital for about 20 years.
He is just one of more than 1,000 accused war criminals living and working in the United States.
"He tied (my brother) to military vehicle and dragged him behind. He said to us if you've got enough power, get him back," the villager said. "He shredded him into pieces. That's how he died."
The lawsuit is now headed to the U.S. Supreme Court. If the court agrees to hear it, it could become a landmark case over whether foreigners living in the U.S. can be held accountable for crimes allegedly committed overseas.
The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in February that the lawsuit's claims that Ali tortured and attempted to murder the plaintiff can move forward but the claims that he committed "war crimes" cannot, since those alleged actions occurred outside the United States.
Ali entered the U.S. on a visa through his Somali wife, Intisar Farah, who became a U.S. citizen. In 2006, she was found guilty of naturalization fraud for claiming she was a refugee from the very Somali clan that Ali is accused of torturing.
The U.S. doesn't have jurisdiction over the events that played out in Somalia in the 1980s, even though Ali has ties to the U.S. military. At the time, the Siad Barre government was a U.S. ally. Thus, American officials considered many military soldiers and commanders, including Ali, to be fighting for U.S. interests.
However, there is no criminal court in the world that can try Ali for war crimes. One key reason for this is that no criminal court really has jurisdiction to do so.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague wasn't formally envisioned until 1994, following the genocide in Rwanda. The ICC didn't issue its first arrest warrants until a decade later.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/01/us/accused-war-criminal-works-at-dulles-airport/index.html?
Sincerely,
Brian M. Kwesiga
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He is just one of more than 1,000 accused war criminals living and working in the United States.
"He tied (my brother) to military vehicle and dragged him behind. He said to us if you've got enough power, get him back," the villager said. "He shredded him into pieces. That's how he died."
The lawsuit is now headed to the U.S. Supreme Court. If the court agrees to hear it, it could become a landmark case over whether foreigners living in the U.S. can be held accountable for crimes allegedly committed overseas.
The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in February that the lawsuit's claims that Ali tortured and attempted to murder the plaintiff can move forward but the claims that he committed "war crimes" cannot, since those alleged actions occurred outside the United States.
Ali entered the U.S. on a visa through his Somali wife, Intisar Farah, who became a U.S. citizen. In 2006, she was found guilty of naturalization fraud for claiming she was a refugee from the very Somali clan that Ali is accused of torturing.
The U.S. doesn't have jurisdiction over the events that played out in Somalia in the 1980s, even though Ali has ties to the U.S. military. At the time, the Siad Barre government was a U.S. ally. Thus, American officials considered many military soldiers and commanders, including Ali, to be fighting for U.S. interests.
However, there is no criminal court in the world that can try Ali for war crimes. One key reason for this is that no criminal court really has jurisdiction to do so.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague wasn't formally envisioned until 1994, following the genocide in Rwanda. The ICC didn't issue its first arrest warrants until a decade later.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/01/us/accused-war-criminal-works-at-dulles-airport/index.html?
Sincerely,
Brian M. Kwesiga
--
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