September 19, 2008	Friday	Ramazan 18, 1429

NEW YORK, Sept 18: A US-based women’s peace group known as CODEPINIK called on Thursday for the arrest of US President George W. Bush, when he comes to address the UN General Assembly on Tuesday morning, charging him with launching a war of aggression in Iraq and for killing over a million Iraqis.

The “pink police squad” of the group will wait for him outside and call for his arrest on international war crimes charges, said a press statement.

Incidentally, it will be President Bush’s last appearance at the world body as the US president.

At 9am on Sept 23, members of CODEPINK will stand outside the United Nations dressed in pink police hats and badges with whistles and signs, and demonstrate their desire to arrest President Bush and to see him tried by the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague for launching a war of aggression, sanctioning the use of torture (considered a violation of international law by the UN), and flying detainees to “black sites” as part of a secret rendition programme.