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Top IDF officer cancels plans to study in UK - Worried about Arrest
Fearing arrest, Brig.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi decided Sunday to cancel plans to travel and study in England over the summer after the IDF Judge Advocate General recommended he refrain from entering the United Kingdom where he could be charged with committing war crimes. Kochavi, the Gaza Division Commander, was enrolled for studies at the Royal College of Defense Studies. thanks EU/Jack Straw/ Italian and Spanish Uber-Judges Kochavi has held several senior field positions including head of the Paratrooper's Brigade and was supposed to be the only IDF officer to attend the prestigious academy this summer. think they'd arrest Barghouti? Me neither, which makes them cowards and pussies and moral equivalents to the Arab anti-semites But following a recommendation by Judge Advocate General Brig.-Gen. Avi Mandelblit, Kochavi canceled his trip and decided not to risk the chance of being arrested upon his arrival and tried for war crimes. Mandelblit based his recommendation on the near-arrest half-a-year-ago of former OC Southern Command Maj.-Gen. (res.) Doron Almog who landed in London but refrained from disembarking after he was warned that detectives were waiting to take him into custody on suspicion of war crimes. The warrant, which had been issued per the request of a pro-Palestinian Muslim group, accused Almog of illegally ordering the demolition of 59 Palestinian homes in Rafiah in 2002. Senior officers expressed concern with Kochavi's decision to cancel his trip to London warning that unless the issue was resolved on a diplomatic level Mendilblit might decide to recommend that senior officers who served during the Intifada refrain from traveling to England, Spain and other countries in Western Europe. "This problem needs to be solved on a diplomatic level and with those European countries passing new legislation which doesn't allow them to arrest and try foreign military officers," one senior security official said. "Until then, IDF officers might just not be allowed to travel to specific countries."
Posted by: Frank G 2006-02-26 |
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