00:01:30 False Surrender by guy on hill, but, maybe he was hot and fanning his thigh.
00:07:00 Threat of violence to unarmed Iraqi by idiot U.S. soldier
00:08:00 Forcible undressing: but, if in the context of a search, prolly not so illegal
00:14:30 Does Conspiracy theory work for war crimes? That is, does conspiring or planning to commit pillage count as one of those chargeable offenses?
00:20:30 Cluster bomb: arguable as indirect targeting of civilians, but we should probably test under the Proportionality Requirement of usefulness of civilian areas as a strategic target. Hard to analyze without more data. However, each use was probably under different conditions and directed at different targets. Is it even possible to document where all the cluster munitions were used, and if a risk assessment was done for each? It seems a tall task ex post facto.
00:24:00 Denial of Humanitarian aid by Iraqi soldiers: milk truck
00:28:25 Oil Fires: perhaps a military target, but Kuwait had such a small force that destruction of them was hardly military necessity. However, Iraqis setting fire to their own oil rigs may not be a cognizable crime. For the pollution, could we claim it as perhaps a type of chemical weapon?
00:32:20 Electrical Torture, battery to bed
00:34:00 Pillage: pocketing jewelry
00:38:30 Shooting of non-combatant woman
00:45:30 use of chemical agents (mustard gas), but we use tear gas even on our own citizens for small scale riots.
00:46:20 anti-personnel land mines – not a war crime, per se, but perhaps a violation of the ’97 Landmine Treaty. Unfortunately, this was a later development and Iraq didn’t even sign until last year, I think.
01:06:30 Electrical Torture of American Soldier
01:18:00 Oil based chocolate mudslide. Forced drinking of unappealing beverage.
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