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Red Crescent Truck Loaded With Bomb

February 23rd, 2008 | 1 Comment

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Coalition forces discovered a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device disguised as a Red Crescent food relief truck in southeastern Mosul Feb. 15.

The truck was labeled with hospital markings but contained eight 55-gallon drums with more than 5,000 pounds of unknown bulk explosives.

The discovery was made during a route clearance operation as part of Operation Phantom Phoenix. Because of the proximity of the VBIED to civilian population, an explosive ordnance disposal team determined the truck would need to be removed from the neighborhood before its destruction.

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One Response to "Red Crescent Truck Loaded With Bomb"

  1. A.N. Nonymous says:
    February 24, 2008 at 4:39 am

    Does not this act tend to abdicate Geneva Conventions protections afforded the red crescent?

    Does this article 19 provision require the harmful act be executed ?

    All the more that reason that enemy combatants be held and tried off of U.S. soil; As, surely, some ACLU lawyer would argue that its purpose was for construction of a hospital.

    http://www.ppu.org.uk/learn/texts/doc_geneva_con.html

    Summary of main points

    The distinctive emblems defined in the Geneva Conventions are the red cross or the red crescent on a white background. In order to retain their protective status in wartime, these emblems may not be used either in peace or war except to indicate or to protect the medical personnel, establishments and material protected by the Conventions. (National Societies may, in accordance with their national legislation, make use of the emblem for their other peacetime activities.) In wartime they must not use the emblem to signify that ‘protection’ is conferred by it, unless specifically authorised to do by their governments: in this way the sign of the red cross or red crescent is itself protected from abuse.

    http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/0/6756482d86146898c125641e004aa3c5?OpenDocument

    Art. 19. The protection to which civilian hospitals are entitled shall not cease unless they are used to commit, outside their humanitarian duties, acts harmful to the enemy. Protection may, however, cease only after due warning has been given, naming, in all appropriate cases, a reasonable time limit and after such warning has remained unheeded.