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To: JohnM who wrote (95678)	4/22/2003 11:44:29 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

I wouldn't be surprised to see it quietly fade away. The Military is doing one hell of a reform job. State hasn't even tried. Gingrich is onto something here. State's AID programs are really bad bureaucracies.

To: JohnM who wrote (95678)	4/23/2003 5:41:47 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

I just watched the Gingrich speech on CSPAN. He was spot on, IMO. Do you remember our conversation last year about the ICC? You were castigating the Admins decision to oppose it. Belgium is giving us a good example of why we did. lindybill@toldyaso.com Franks faces Belgium 'genocide' case 18 April 2003 BRUSSELS US Allied Forces Commander, General Tommy Franks, and a second, unnamed party, could face trial in Belgium for war crimes under the country's amended genocide law after four Belgian doctors lodged a complaint in Brussels. The four men, two of whom are still in Baghdad, work for the Belgian association Medicine for the Third World and were witnesses to the Allied invasion of the country. Several events have already been cited by the doctors' lawyer, Jan Fermon, including an ambulance under fire from US troops, the bombing of a market, an attack on a civilian bus, random excecutions and inaction in the face of hospital pillaging. This will be the first time Belgium's law of universal competence will be tested since its politico-diplomatic cleanup last month. The so-called genocide law had given courts in Belgium universal jurisdiction to try cases of genocide, war crimes and human rights violations. expatica.com