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D.Rumsfeld bang voor arrestatie in Duitsland
M02 - 24.01.2005 22:24
"Facing War Crimes Lawsuit, Rumsfeld Cancels Trip To Germany"
De onafhankelijke pers organisatie 'Democracy Now!' meldt dat de Amerikaanse Minister van Defensie Donald Rumsfeld zijn geplande reis naar Duitsland afgezegd heeft. Dit omdat hij bang zou zijn gearresteerd te worden voor zijn oorlogsmisdaden.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has cancelled a planned trip to Germany for an upcoming security conference because he has been accused in a German court of committing war crimes. The Center for Constitutional Rights filed a complaint last month accusing Rumsfeld of war crimes and torture in connection with the mistreatment of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib. German laws allows the trial of war crimes regardless of where they are carried out. The Center said it had turned to German prosecutors "as a court of last resort" because the US government "is unwilling to open an independent investigation" and had "refused to join the International Criminal Court".
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 Website: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/24/1541251
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| Read more about: media militarisme vrijheid, repressie & mensenrechten wereldcrisis | | supplements | | | update | Guido - 02.02.2005 15:29
"Pentagon spokesman Lawrence DiRita said it remains to be determined whether Mr Rumsfeld will attend the Munich meeting."
"It's not just a question of the secretary's travel. We have many thousands of US forces stationed there, some of which are named in this brief. So it's a big, big problem," he said."
He said the issue was being "worked on a government-wide basis".
"A Berlin newspaper reported last week that the German federal prosecutor opted not to take legal action against Mr Rumsfeld because no German citizen was a victim of abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison."
 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200502/s1294179.htm
| | GONZALES ADDED TO WAR CRIMES COMPLAINT | Guido - 06.02.2005 23:42
"(CCR) Says Attorney General Designate’s Testimony before the Senate Confirms His Rolein Abu Ghraib Torture"
"CCR filed new documents on January 31, 2005, with the German Federal Prosecutor looking into war crimes charges against high-ranking U.S. officials including Donald Rumsfeld: one includes new evidence that the Fay investigation into Abu Ghraib protected Administration officials – it is a comprehensive and shocking opinion by Scott Horton, an expert on international law and the Chair of the International Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. The second is a letter that details how Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee confirms his role as complicit in the torture and abuse of detainees in Abu Ghraib and elsewhere in Iraq. "
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=9392
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