* AC’s contempt for Israel is mirrored by its equally low regard for the Jewish state’s closest ally, the United States, which AC views as one of the world’s chief perpetrators of human-rights abuses, “war crimes,” “crimes against humanity,” and “torture against noncombatants.” A January 11, 2007 article on the Alternatives website, for instance, condemned “those American leaders who ordered the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq.” Impugning the U.S. for allegedly “scuttling … [Saddam Hussein‘s] right to a proper defense,” Alternatives characterized the Iraqi dictator’s December 2006 execution as an “outsourced [American] lynching.”