War Crimes Report Translated and Published in Arabic

JANUARY 17, 2006

“U.S. War Crimes in Iraq and Mechanisms for Accountability” - published on October 11, 2006 by ten organizations concurrently, has now been translated into Arabic. The report is now fully accessible by Iraqis and other Arabic speakers in the Middle East.

"We are making 'U.S. War Crimes in Iraq and Mechanisms for Accountability' available in Arabic because we want to increase its accessibilty to the people of Iraq so that they may have knowledge of the scope and illegality of certain U.S. conduct there," said Nick Mottern, Director of ConsumersforPeace. org. "We hope that this will assist the Iraqi people in preventing further war crimes and in getting reparations for what has been done."

The Arabic language edition of the War Crimes Report is available for free download as a pdf file through these websites:

http://www.consumer sforpeace. org/pdf/war_ crimes_arabic_ ed_011307. pdf
http://traprockpeac e.org/war_ crimes_arabic_ ed_011307. pdf
http://vcnv. org/files/ war_crimes_ arabic_ed_ 011307.pdf
http://www.videos1. informationclear inghouse. info/pdf/ war_crimes_ arabic_ed_ 011307.pdf
http://www.brussels tribunal. org/pdf/war_ crimes_iraq_ arabic.pdf
http://www.uruknet. info

English language editions are available at these sites and the sites listed below. We thank Dahr Jamail for coordinating the translation, which includes all references in his extensively researched report.

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The English language edition had been prepared by Consumers for Peace - http://www.consumer sforpeace. org - with the advice of Karen Parker, noted lawyer in human rights and humanitarian law. Ms. Parker is President of the San-Francisco- based Association of Humanitarian Lawyers 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.