Spanish Judge Issues Warrant for Three GIs

Yahoo! News reported A judge has issued an international arrest warrant for three U.S. soldiers whose tank fired on a Baghdad hotel during the Iraq war, killing a Spanish journalist and a Ukrainian cameraman, a court official said Wednesday. Judge Santiago Pedraz issued the warrant for Sgt. Shawn Gibson, Capt. Philip Wolford and Lt. Col. Philip de Camp, all from the U.S. 3rd Infantry, which is based in Fort Stewart, Ga.

If anyone ever wondered why Bush would not let the US join the International Criminal Court, this is a very good example.

Jose Couso, who worked for the Spanish television network Telecinco, died April 8, 2003, after a U.S. army tank crew fired a shell on Hotel Palestine in Baghdad where many journalists were staying to cover the war. Reuters cameraman Taras Protsyuk, a Ukrainian, also was killed..... U.S. officials have insisted that the soldiers believed they were being shot at when they opened fire. Following the Palestine incident, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell said a review of the incident found that the use of force was justified.