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<DIV align=left><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Francis A. Boyle</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Lawyers Against The War
[mailto:law@portal.ca] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, January 20, 2010 7:11
AM<BR><B>To:</B> Undisclosed-Recipient:;<BR><B>Subject:</B> ICC Complaint
Against Bush, Cheney et al<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">INTERNATIONAL
CRIMINAL COURT COMPLAINT FILED AGAINST BUSH, CHENEY, RUMSFELD, TENET, RICE AND
GONZALES; INTERNATIONAL ARREST WARRANTS REQUESTED</SPAN></B> </DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Champaign,
U.S.A./The Hague, Netherlands (19 Jan 2010). -- Professor Francis A. Boyle of
the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, U.S.A. has filed a
Complaint with the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (I.C.C.) in
The Hague against U.S. citizens George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld,
George Tenet, Condoleezza Rice, and Alberto Gonzales (the “Accused”) for their
criminal policy and practice of “extraordinary rendition” perpetrated upon about
100 human beings. This term is really their euphemism for the enforced
disappearance of persons and their consequent torture. This criminal
policy and practice by the Accused constitute Crimes against Humanity in
violation of the Rome Statute establishing the I.C.C. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">The United
States is not a party to the Rome Statute. Nevertheless the Accused have
ordered and been responsible for the commission of I.C.C. statutory crimes
within the respective territories of many I.C.C. member states, including
several in Europe. Consequently, the I.C.C. has jurisdiction to prosecute
the Accused for their I.C.C. statutory crimes under Rome Statute article
12(2)(a) that affords the I.C.C. jurisdiction to prosecute for I.C.C. statutory
crimes committed in I.C.C. member states. </SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">The Complaint
requests (1) that the I.C.C. Prosecutor open an investigation of the Accused on
his own accord under Rome Statute article 15(1); and (2) that the I.C.C.
Prosecutor also formally “submit to the [I.C.C.] Pre-Trial Chamber a request for
authorization of an investigation” of the Accused under Rome Statute article
15(3).</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">For similar
reasons, the Highest Level Officials of the Obama administration risk the filing
of a follow-up Complaint with the I.C.C. if they do not immediately terminate
the Accused’s criminal policy and practice of “extraordinary rendition,” which
the Obama administration has continued to implement. </SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">The Complaint
concludes with a request that the I.C.C. Prosecutor obtain International Arrest
Warrants for the Accused from the I.C.C. in accordance with Rome Statute
articles 58(1)(a), 58(1)(b)(i), 58(1)(b)(ii), and 58(1)(b)(iii).
</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">In order to
demonstrate your support for this Complaint you can contact the I.C.C.
Prosecutor by letter, fax, or email as indicated below. </SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Francis
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19, 2010</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Dear
Sir:</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">
Please accept my personal compliments. I have the honor hereby to
file with you and the International Criminal Court this Complaint against U.S.
citizens George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet,
Condoleezza Rice , and Alberto Gonzales (hereinafter referred to as the
“Accused”) for their criminal policy and practice of “extraordinary rendition.”
This term is really a euphemism for the enforced disappearances of persons,
their torture, severe deprivation of their liberty, their violent sexual abuse,
and other inhumane acts perpetrated upon these Victims. The Accused have
inflicted this criminal policy and practice of “extraordinary rendition” upon
about one hundred (100) human beings, almost all of whom are
Muslims/Arabs/Asians and People of Color. I doubt very seriously that the
Accused would have inflicted these criminal practices upon 100 White
Judeo-Christian men. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">The
Accused’s criminal policy and practice of “extraordinary rendition” are both
“widespread” <B>and</B> “systematic” within the meaning of Rome Statute article
7(1). Therefore the Accused have committed numerous “Crimes against
Humanity” in flagrant and repeated and longstanding violation of Rome Statute
articles 5(1)(b), 7(1)(a), 7(1)(e), 7(1)(f), 7(1)(g), 7(1)(h), 7(1)(i), and
7(1)(k). Furthermore, the Accused’s Rome Statute Crimes Against Humanity
of enforced disappearances of persons constitutes ongoing criminal activity that
continues even as of today.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">The
United States is not a contracting party to the Rome Statute.
Nevertheless, the Accused ordered and were responsible for the commission of
these I.C.C. statutory crimes on, in, and over the respective territories of
several I.C.C. member states, including many located in </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Europe.
Therefore, the I.C.C. has jurisdiction over the Accused for their I.C.C.
statutory crimes in accordance with Rome Statute article 12(2)(a), which
provides as follows:</SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Article
12</SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Preconditions
to the Exercise of Jurisdiction</SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.8in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.8in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">…</SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.8in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.8in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">
2. In the case of article 13, paragraph (a) or (c), the Court may exercise
its jurisdiction if one or more of the following States are Parties to this
Statute or have accepted the jurisdiction of the Court in accordance with
paragraph 3:</SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.8in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.8in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><SPAN>(a)<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">The
State on the territory of which the conduct in question occurred
…</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">So
the fact that United States is not a contracting party to the Rome Statute is no
bar to the I.C.C.’s prosecution of the Accused because they have ordered and
been responsible for the commission of Rome Statute Crimes against Humanity on,
in, and over the respective territories of several I.C.C. member states.
</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Consequently,
I hereby respectfully request that the Court exercise its jurisdiction
over the Accused for these Crimes against Humanity in accordance with Rome
Statute article 13(c), which provides as follows:</SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"></SPAN> </P>
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style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Article
13</SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Exercise
of Jurisdiction</SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.8in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.8in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">
The Court may exercise its jurisdiction with respect to a crime referred to in
article 5 in accordance with the provisions of this Statute if:</SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.8in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.8in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.8in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.8in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">
…</SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.8in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.8in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 96pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0.8in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><SPAN>(c)<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> The
Prosecutor has initiated an investigation in respect of such a crime in
accordance with article 15.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Pursuant
to Rome Statute article 13(c), I hereby respectfully request that you initiate
an investigation proprio motu against the Accused in accordance with Rome
Statute article 15(1): “The Prosecutor may initiate investigations proprio motu
on the basis of information on crimes within the jurisdiction of the
Court.” My detailed Complaint against the Accused constitutes the
sufficient “information” required by article 15(1).</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">
Furthermore, I respectfully submit that this Complaint by itself constitutes “a
reasonable basis to proceed with an investigation” under Rome Statute article
15(3). Hence, I also respectfully request that you formally “submit to the
Pre-Trial Chamber a request for authorization of an investigation” of the
Accused under Rome Statute article 15(3) at this time. Please inform me at
your earliest convenience about the status and disposition of my two requests
set forth immediately above.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">
</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Based upon your
extensive human rights work in Argentina, you know full well from direct
personal experience the terrors and the horrors of enforced disappearances of
persons and their consequent torture. According to reputable news media sources
here in the United States, about 100 human beings have been subjected to
enforced disappearances and subsequent torture by the Accused. We still have no
accounting for these Victims. In other words, many of these Victims of enforced
disappearances and torture by the Accused could still be alive today. Their very
lives are at stake right now as we communicate. You could very well save
some of their lives by publicly stating that you are opening an investigation of
my Complaint.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">
</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">As for those
Victims of enforced disappearances by the Accused who have died, your opening an
investigation of my Complaint is the only means by which we might be able to
obtain some explanation and accounting for their whereabouts and the location of
their remains in order to communicate this critical information to their
next-of-kin and loved-ones. Based upon your extensive experience combating
enforced disappearances of persons and their consequent torture in Argentina,
you know full well how important that objective is. The next-of-kin,
loved-ones, and friends of “disappeared” human beings can never benefit from
psychological “closure” unless and until there is an accounting for the fates,
if not the remains, of the Victims. In part that is precisely why the
Accused’s enforced disappearances of about 100 human beings constitutes ongoing
criminal activity that continues as of today and will continue until the fates
of all their Victims have been officially determined by you opening an
investigation into my Complaint.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">
</SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Let us mutually
suppose that during the so-called “dirty war” in Argentina the International
Criminal Court had been in existence. I submit that as an Argentinean
human rights lawyer you would have moved heaven and earth and done everything in
your power to get the I.C.C. and its Prosecutor to assume jurisdiction over the
Argentine Junta in order to terminate and prosecute their enforced
disappearances and torture of your fellow Argentinean citizens. I would
have done the same. Unfortunately, the I.C.C. did not exist during those
darkest of days for the Argentine Republic when we could have so acted.
But today as the I.C.C. Prosecutor, you have both the opportunity and the legal
power to do something to rectify this mass and total human rights annihilation,
and to resolve and to terminate and to prosecute the “widespread” and
“systematic” policy and practice of enforced disappearances and consequent
torture of about 100 human beings by the Accused. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Unfortunately,
the new Obama administration in the United States has made it perfectly clear by
means of public statements by President Obama and his Attorney General Eric
Holder that they are not going to open any criminal investigation of any of the
Accused for these aforementioned Crimes against Humanity. Hence an I.C.C.
“case” against the Accused is “admissible” under Rome Statute article
1(complementarity) and article 17. As of right now <B>you</B> and the
I.C.C. Judges are the only people in the entire world who can bring some degree
of Justice, Closure, and Healing into this dire, tragic, and deplorable
situation for the lives and well-being of about one hundred “disappeared” and
tortured human beings as well as for their loved-ones and next-of-kin, who are
also Victims of the Accused’s Crimes against Humanity. On behalf of them all, as
a fellow human rights lawyer I implore you to open an investigation into my
Complaint and to issue a public statement to that effect. </SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">
</SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> Also, most
regretfully, the new Obama administration has publicly stated that it will
continue the Accused’s policy and practice of "extraordinary rendition," which
is really their euphemism for enforced disappearances of human beings and
consequent torture by other States. Hence the Highest Level Officials of
the Obama administration fully intend to commit their own Crimes against
Humanity under the I.C.C. Rome Statute – unless you stop them! Your
opening an investigation of my Complaint will undoubtedly deter the Obama
administration from engaging in any more “extraordinary renditions” -- enforced
disappearances of human beings and having them tortured by other States. Indeed
your opening of an investigation into my Complaint might encourage the Obama
administration to terminate its criminal “extraordinary rendition” program
immediately and thoroughly by means of issuing a public statement to that
effect. In other words, your opening an investigation of my Complaint
could very well save the lives of a large number of additional human beings who
otherwise will be subjected by the Obama administration to the Rome Statute
Crimes against Humanity of enforced disappearances of persons and their
consequent torture by other States, inter alia.</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">
</SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">The lives and
well-being of countless human beings are now at risk, hanging in the balance,
waiting for you to act promptly, effectively, and immediately to save them from
becoming Victims of Rome Statute Crimes against Humanity perpetrated by the
Highest Level Officials of the Obama administration as successors-in-law
to the Accused by opening an investigation of my Complaint. Otherwise, I
shall be forced to file with you and the I.C.C. a follow-up Complaint against
the Highest Level Officials of the Obama administration. I certainly hope
it will not come to that. Please make it so.</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">
</SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Finally, for
reasons more fully explained in the <I>Conclusion</I> to my Complaint, I
respectfully request that you obtain I.C.C. arrest warrants for the Accused in
accordance with Rome Statute articles 58(1)(a), article 58(1)(b)(i), article
58(1)(b)(ii), and article 58(1)(b)(iii). The sooner, the better for all
humankind.</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">
</SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">I respectfully
request that you schedule a meeting with me at our earliest mutual <SPAN
style="COLOR: black"></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">convenience in
order to discuss this Complaint. I look forward to hearing from you at
your earliest convenience.<SPAN style="COLOR: black"></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"></SPAN> </P>
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style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">This
transmission letter is an integral part of my Complaint against the Accused and
is hereby incorporated by reference into the attached Complaint dated as of
today as well. </SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"></SPAN> </P>
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style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Please
accept, Sir, the assurance of my highest consideration.</SPAN></P>
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align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Francis
A. Boyle</SPAN></P>
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align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Professor
of International Law</SPAN></P>
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