<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c54a2b2e-0b6a-49f6-a467-4cb6a04476f0/B19C9C84-203C-4EF2-9EF8-40E7CDF25987/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dawn.com/2007/06/14/rss.htm" href="http://www.dawn.com/2007/06/14/rss.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dawn.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dawn.com/2007/06/14/rss.htm"><DIV> UNITED NATIONS, June 14 (AFP) A coalition of non-governmental groups Wednesday took the UN Security Council to task for its “shocking silence” on alleged violations of international law by US-led forces in Iraq and urged an early end to their mandate. In a report, the Global Policy Forum slammed the conduct of US-led coalition forces and their Iraqi government partners who “have held a large number of Iraqi citizens in 'security detention' without charge or trial, in direct violation of international law.” ”No Iraqi is safe from arbitrary arrest and the number of prisoners has risen greatly since 2003,” said the international non-profit body that monitors policy-making at the United Nations. “The Security Council has maintained a shocking silence on (abuses in) Iraq,” James Paul, one of the lead authors of the report, told a press briefing.(Posted @ 10:20 PST)</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B19C9C84-203C-4EF2-9EF8-40E7CDF25987/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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