PETRAEUS MANUAL AND TACTICS FLOUT INTERNATIONAL LAW

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Death and Suffering Grow for the Iraqi People

General David Petraeus’ blueprint for the surge in Iraq implicitly violates international
law as do U.S. tactics that have dramatically increased the level death and suffering for
Iraqi people, according to a report released today by ConsumersforPeace.org

The report, entitled “U.S. War Crimes in the ‘Surge’ - 2007”, begins with an analysis by
noted human rights lawyer Karen Parker of the US Army/Marine counterinsurgency
manual produced by General Petraeus. The manual has been considered the operational
plan for the latest U.S. offensive. Ms. Parker, specifying the ways in which the manual
fails the test of international law, says: “The bottom line is that the Manual is a blueprint
for the subjucation of the Iraqi people.”

The second section of the report, prepared by author and researcher Bill Rau, focuses on
the devastating consequences to the Iraqi people of the vastly expanded use of air strikes
against resistance fighters and the dramatically increased detentions of Iraqis. This
section of the report also documents the continued deterioration of public services that
plague Iraq.

The report is a one-year follow-up of “U.S. War Crimes in Iraq; Mechanisms for
Accountability,” published in October 2006 by ConsumersforPeace.org.

Ms. Parker is President of the San Francisco-based Association of Humanitarian
Lawyers (www.humanlaw.org) and Chief Delegate to the United Nations for the Los
Angeles-based International Educational Development/Humanitarian Law Project
(IED/AHL), an accredited non-governmental organization on the U.N. Secretary-
General’s list. Mr. Rau is the author of From Feast to Famine and a researcher and
development policy analyst based in Washington, DC.

ConsumersforPeace.org, directed by Nick Mottern, is a website and organizing entity
that focuses on the relationship between oil and the Iraq War and advocates for
accountability for the invasion and occupation of Iraq. It promotes the ExxonMobil War
Boycott.

THE FULL REPORT IS IN THIS PDF FILE.