Civil Rights Group sues to have Rumsfeld investigated

[CatWoman]

BERLIN - Civil rights activists filed suit Tuesday asking German prosecutors to open a war crimes investigation of outgoing Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and a host of other U.S. officials for their alleged roles in abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and Guantanamo Bay.

The 220-page document was sent to federal prosecutors by U.S. and German attorneys under a German law that allows the prosecution of war crimes regardless of where they were committed. It alleges that Rumsfeld personally ordered and condoned torture.

"One of the goals has been to say a torturer is someone who cannot be given a safe haven," said Michael Ratner, the president of New York's Center for Constitutional Rights, which is behind the litigation.

"It sends a strong message that this is not acceptable."


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061114/ap_on_re_eu/germany_rumsfeld_suit

[BushOut06]

1. Why not go after Bush also?

Or will they wait until he's out of office for that?

[Demeter]

4. Rummy Is Vulnerable

Bush still has the nuclear football.

[jazzjunkysue]

2. Same excuse: It's either too soon or too late to take this action.

"Abu Ghraib is something that the U.S. government has investigated very thoroughly."

This defense is either "We won't jump to conclusions and pre-judge this"

or

"This is in the past. The important thing is to look to the future. You're harping on the past. You're always complaining."


It's always either too soon or too late.

Basically, this administration should be called the Federal Express Administration: You're either too late or too early for the drop off, every time.

[rodeodance]

3. see thi thread in LBN also:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2613630&mesg_id=2613630

[Disturbed]

5. Once Rumsfailed is no longer a Govt. Official

he can be sued. I suspect that will happen around Feb. '07.

Rumsfeld Shouldn't be Fired, He Should be Indicted
by Matthew Rothschild

“Secretary Rumsfeld has publicly admitted that . . . he ordered an Iraqi national held in Camp Cropper, a high security detention center in Iraq, to be kept off the prison’s rolls and not presented to the International Committee of the Red Cross,” the report noted. The Geneva Conventions require countries to grant the Red Cross access to all detainees. “

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0418-24.htm