A quick synopsis on the Wikileaks dump…!

As the trial of a former Guantanamo detainee proceeded peacefully in a New York courtroom today, U.S. military prosecutors in Cuba were reportedly scrambling to get Omar Khadr, the alleged child soldier on trial for war crimes at Gitmo, to plead guilty to murder. Plea negotiations are reportedly ongoing and his trial, set to resume Monday, has been postponed for a week.

Some empires never learn.

US Prosecutor Documents and Conducts Nuremberg Trial while US Government Personnel Conduct Secret War On and Torture Of Guatemalans

President Obama’s Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, invited Henry Kissinger to talk about the history of U.S. involvement in the Indochinese wars. Behind the special treatment for war criminal Kissinger is the current administration’s aggressive pursuit of war in Afghanistan and military and covert operations around the world.

I’m offering the following to fill out on last week’s very brief diary (see P.S. 2 for a belated explanation in reaction to the execution of the original).

Extrajudicial Killing an Obama administration policy.

I will fight targeted assassinations even if the President is a Democrat.

“A United Nations panel of human rights experts has accused Israel of war crimes through willful killing, unnecessary brutality and torture in its “clearly unlawful” assault on a ship attempting to break the blockade of Gaza in May in which nine Turkish activists died.”

Little covered in the United States, twelve U.S. soldiers are facing charges of secretly killing Afghan civilians sport, and collecting body parts as trophies. The Army ignored warnings from soldier family members about what was happening. So far, prosecutors have not yet decided how or if to move forward with the case, though charging papers have been drawn up.

The New York Times reports that Serbia’s Special War Crimes Prosecutor’s Office indicted nine men in relation to the killings of 43 ethnic Albanians during the Kosovo conflict.