Brittisk JK ansåg Irak-kriget olagligt - Secretary Albright: “get new lawyers.”

Brittisk JK ansåg Irak-kriget olagligt

Den brittiska regeringens juridiske rådgivare informerade 2002 dåvarande premiärminister Tony Blair om att det skulle strida mot internationell rätt att avsätta Iraks diktator Saddam Hussein.

Ekot 29 november 2009

In James Rubin's account of the Kosovo war, he describes an exchange between

Secretary Albright and Robin Cook (the British Foreign Secretary).

Cook was explaining that it is difficult for Britain to commit to the war

without UN Security Council approval because the legal advice he had received was

that such action would be illegal under international law.

Albright's response was, simply,“get new lawyers.”

the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army.” The KLA was known to be heavily involved in drug trafficking and had close ties to Osama bin Laden

Fototillfälle med Göran Persson, Madeleine Albright, Robin Cook, m. fl.

Anna Lindh