Blairite minister accused of war crimes

Lawyers representing two Pakistani men handed to the US for rendition by the British military called on Friday for senior government figures to face war crimes charges: here.

These “senior government figures” include Geoff Hoon, who was Tony Blair‘s Secretary of War “Defence”. Hoon later had to leave politics because of his role in a corruption scandal (and then he got a fat cat job at war profiteers AgustaWestland).

Britain left a man in a US airbase jail for eight years without trial despite having the power to remove him, the Supreme Court heard today: here.