Gardai formally requested to apprehend Bush

national | crime and justice | news report Tuesday May 10, 2005 15:37 by SNN Watch

To: Sergeant John O'Sullivan,
Station Sergeant
Shannon Garda Station
Shannon Town

From: Edward Horgan
International Secretary Peace and Neutrality Alliance

Re: Possible arrival of war criminal at Shannon airport this afternoon

Dear Sgt O'Sullivan

I have received information that US President George W Bush may be arriving
at Shannon airport this afternoon. For the purpose of identification to help
you with your enquiries he is likely to be travelling in a Boeing 767
aircraft normally known as Air-force One.

On my own behalf and on behalf of the Irish Peace and Neutrality Alliance, I
formally ask you to arrest Mr George W Bush as soon as he lands at Shannon
so as to prevent his escape. As you are aware, Ireland, as a signatory to
the agreements setting up the International Criminal Court, is obliged to
arrest any suspected war

criminals and hand them over to the jurisdiction of
the International Criminal Court.

The specific crimes that President George W Bush is accused of include
conducting wars of aggression in Afghanistan, and Iraq, in direct
contravention of the UN Security Council, resulting in the unlawful deaths
of over 5,000 innocent people in Afghanistan, and over 100,000 innocent
people in Iraq.
As you will no doubt be aware, the illegal war and occupation of Iraq is
still in progress, so his arrest at Shannon will not only be of a punitive
nature but it will also be preventative.
In addition to the above mentioned unlawful killings that have been directed
by President Bush, he has also been implicated in the deliberate targeting
of civilian populations in Afghanistan and Iraq contrary to the Geneva
Convention on the treatment of civilian populations.
Furthermore, President Bush has been implicated in the maltreatment,
including torture leading to deaths of prisoners of war, and other prisoners
in Abu Graib Prison in Iraq, and in other locations, and implicated in the
transport of prisoners for torture to and from Guantanamo Bay prison to
other locations.

As you are aware from previous complaints made by myself and other persons,
Shannon airport has been used unlawfully not only for the conduct of the
wars in Afghanistan and Iraq but also for the unlawful transport of
prisoners for torture.

I note with grave concern that these past complaints have not resulted in
any preventative actions by the Gardai at Shannon. I urge you and the other
members of the Gardai at Shannon to do your duties under Irish Law and under
International Laws, and to apprehend President George W Bush in particular
and all other suspected war criminals that pass through Shannon.
As you are also aware, from my previous complaints, US troops carrying
weapons and munitions are also passing through Shannon airport on an daily
basis in direct contravention of the Hague Convention V on Neutrality. The
Irish Gardai and Irish Army are obliged under the Hague Convention, to
arrest all such US troops and to intern them for the duration of the War.

Yours truly,

Edward J. Horgan
International Secretary
Irish Peace and Neutrality Alliance

10th May 2005