http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/11/world/middleeast/11cnd-raid.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Just one day after giving his speech outlining his new strategy for Iraq, President Bush allowed US forces in Iraq to violate the United Nations 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, specifically Article 31 and 33.
You can read those articles here:
http://untreaty.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/9_2_1963.pdf
Though consulates are not technically sovereign territories, embassies are, and hopefully the State Department will warn the Department of Defense before they raid an embassy, which can be construed under international law as an act of war. The world just became a more dangerous place.
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