At Powerline, John Hinderaker has the infuriating story that Spain’s National Court has issued international arrest warrants against three American soldiers involved in a 2003 attack on Baghdad’s Hotel Palestine, where a cameraman for a Spanish TV station and a Reuters reporter were accidentally killed. The case has nothing to do with Spain; it is, as John says, another instance of that country’s presumptuous assumption of “authority to pursue politically motivated persecutions of anyone, anywhere in the world.”
Last year, I wrote this column on Spain’s “universal jurisdiction” power play.