Do as the US says, not as it does.
Thanks to Lying Media Bastards for pointing this one out ("Immunity Addiction", posted August 4).

Quoting from the original article on Yahoo News (LMB has a link to it, I can't get it to run here):

"Despite overwhelming support by the 15-nation council for the mission, the United States faced stiff opposition to a provision in the resolution that would grant blanket immunity from prosecution by foreign courts to international peacekeepers serving in the mission. Germany, France and Mexico abstained from the vote to protest the inclusion of the provision."

It's another example of the United States making official requests that US soldiers NOT be held accountable for their actions, this time in Liberia (if Bush ever decides to send troops there, despite the lack of oil). It's just another example in the US's long history of either introducing UN resolutions to make them immune to international law or vetoing Resolutions that would hold them accountable.

The actual resolution is here.

Notice, also, that the Germans and French had the decency to merely abstain in protest, rather than outright vetoing the measure, as the US has done on many occasions (including numerous anti-terrorism resolutions that the UN attempted to pass in the 1980s: Noam Chomsky is the best source for those...if you want a link, here's one off the top of my head. You have to read down quite a ways to the paragraph where he discusses Nicaragua in the 1980s to see how the US abused it's veto power. Interestingly, it also details how the US was publicly scolded by the World Court and UN for terrorism. Somehow that fact didn't make the US papers either then or after Sept. 11th.)