Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Quotes

I think that you are a war criminal, and I am going to do everything in my power to see that you will be tried as one.

The United States normally punishes war crimes as such only if their committed by enemy nationals.

War crimes will be prosecuted. War criminals will be punished. And it will be no defense to say, 'I was just following orders.'

If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.

Tony Blair is a war criminal.

War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

Saddam is a war criminal and there are no two people who can argue over this.

Why is it that we go to immense lengths getting the Serbs who were responsible for the massacre of 7,000 at Srbrenica-that's slightly more than the total figure for New York 9/11-and we take them to a tribunal in The Hague, and one after another, we arraign them, try them, convict them, and punish them in front of the world, but no plans have been brought forward to get Osama bin Laden and his friends and put them on trial.

If we don't prosecute war criminals, what's the next horrible thing they can do? As anyone knows, if you're not held accountable, you think you can get away with it, and it becomes OK.

Vladimir Putin is a war criminal.

I haven't mentioned another argument, The Hague tribunal. It is clear our generals and all of you who are sitting here now with me could end up there, too.

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.

They have been waiting for eight years to tell me that I am a war criminal and now they do it.

My government believes that those who commit crimes against humanity should be brought to justice.

Some leaders, of course, have also committed crimes, and they have blood on their hands. Or they have secret accounts with stolen money. And so if they leave, people will come after them. So they just don’t leave. Like in Sudan: if you leave, you end up at the International Criminal Court. Staying in power is a form of insurance policy against the long arm of the law.

I do support the effort to investigate for crimes, war crimes committed by the Syrians and the Russians and try to hold them accountable.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

I don't share the view that the ICC is anti-African. The ICC is not putting Africa on trial. The ICC is fighting impunity and individuals who are accused of crimes.

There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders.

Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did.

Institutions can eventually overcome all the legal barriers erected to shield perpetrators of crimes against humanity Justice was finally done where it needed to be done – in Argentina itself.

There can be no deal, no amnesty for war crimes.

Had there been the threat of Nuremburg-style trials for members of the apartheid state security establishment we would never have undergone a peaceful change.

Until now, when powerful men committed crimes against humanity, they knew that as long as they remained powerful, no earthly court could judge them.

The chemical massacre of Damascus, should not, and shall not go unpunished.