bushgang threatens Germany over Rummy criminal complaint

[donsu]

http://www.spacewar.com/2004/041213183522.7t8ko4bz.html


Pentagon concerned about legal complaint in Germany against Rumsfeld, others


The Pentagon expressed concern Monday over a criminal complaint filed in Germany against US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other officials over the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, warning that "frivolous lawsuits" could affect the broader US-German relationship.

The complaint was filed in Berlin November 30 by the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and Berlin's Republican Lawyers' Association on behalf of four Iraqis who were alleged to have been mistreated by US soldiers.

Besides Rumsfeld, former CIA director George Tenet, Undersecretary of Defense for intelligence Steven Cambone, Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski and five other military officers who served in Iraq were named in the complaint, which seeks an investigation into their role in the prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib.

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United States clashed with Belgium last year over a similar law that allowed war crimes charges to be brought against retired General Tommy Franks, who led the US invasion of Iraq, as well as numerous other international figures.

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US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld threatened to block funding for a new NATO headquarters in Belgium over the law, and said the United States was considering whether it could continue to send officials to meetings in Brussels as long as the law was in place.

The Belgian parliament replaced the law with a watered down version in August 2003 and its high court threw out lawsuits against Franks, former president George H.W. Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
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the bloody hands do whatever they want

[tanyev]

1. If you don't want to be charged with war crimes,

don't commit them.

[Yuugal]

2. I'm sure the Germans are shaking in their boots!

We need to mobilize against the German threat! Quick, call out the national guard! Hello? ::cue crickets::

[annabanana]

3. Yup..Time to bomb Dresden ...........oh, um.............wait..........

[Supersedeas]

4. diplomacy on the blunt end of a daisy cutter--shouldn't the State Dept.

be out in front on this one.

Where's Condi???

[Mist]

5. Hmmm....war crimes are "frivolous" ?