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The statement noted that the investigation will focus on the alleged crimes committed in Afghanistan after May 1, 2003, and on other alleged crimes with clear connections to the conflict in Afghanistan that were committed on the territories of other member states after July 1, 2002. In the case of the American targets, Bensouda said, the investigation would focus primarily on 2003 through 2004.

The ICC, established in 2002, does not have the authority to investigate crimes committed in Afghanistan before those dates, the statement said.

The court’s jurisdiction is bound to investigating crimes in the territories of member states, although the U.N. Security Council can authorize extensions of those probes into other nonmember states. Earlier this month, Burundi — in an apparent attempt to avoid prosecution — became the first country to withdraw from the ICC, but the court ultimately authorized an investigation relating to alleged crimes the government had committed anyway.

The United States is one of few nations that never formally submitted to the ICC, which was established as the world’s highest legal authority for the prosecution of war crimes and human rights abuses. But U.S. citizens can still be charged for relevant crimes they commit in other member states.

Afghanistan has been a member state since the court’s inception.

No official deadline was given for the judges to respond to Bensouda’s request.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/icc-prosecutor-seeks-probe-into-war-crimes-allegations-against-us-military-cia-in-afghanistan/2017/11/20/e8ec73b8-ce1e-11e7-a87b-47f14b73162a_story.html


Diane Marshall conflated this into more specious garbage:

For those of you out there who had been saying things like “Psyop – If that Marine Troops were at CIA in Langley why didn’t we know about it? Where are the pictures?” Good grief! President Trump said many times on the campaign trail and in televised debates (several of them) that when he is President he will take care of the problems and, “You won’t know what I’m going to do. That’s stupid to tell the enemy on this day at this time…we are going to fly over and bomb you.” He said when he was president he would take care of the problems and you will hear about it after it happens. I will protect America.

https://themarshallreport.wordpress.com/2017/11/21/trump-bombs-cia-drug-labs-icc-seeks-probe-against-past-administrations-war-crimes/

Further in her article she adds a link to a video at dcyoutube - https://www.dcyoutube.com/watch/pDEpKVC2u84

When you click on the video, it tries to load stuff on my computer.

The video called "Marines Raid CIA - Trump Bombing Bush CIA Opium Labs!" is scenes from a Tom Cruise movie.

The Marshall Report is another tabloid rag full of specious crap. Diane Marshall is full of shit.