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 | | From: | Hank | | Subject: | Rumsfled wanted for War Crimes - Cancels Travel Plans | | Date: | Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:04:27 -0500 |
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Thank humanity that some governments still respect
Freedom, Liberty, the Rule of Law, and prosecute
people for War Crimes. The terrorists, torturers, and
war criminals on the bu$h regime should be tried and
imprisoned for the remainder of their miserable lives....
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8EBCFED0-6677-4F9F-B0D0-6995460FCEFA.htm
Rumsfeld cancels trip after accusations
Friday 21 January 2005, 13:23 Makka Time, 10:23 GMT
The US defence secretary was accused of war crimes
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld cancelled a planned visit to Germany
after a US human rights organisation asked German authorities to prosecute
him for war crimes, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) has learned.
Rumsfeld has informed the German government via the US embassy that he
will not take part in the Munich Security Conference in February, conference
head Horst Teltschik told dpa on Thursday.
The New York-based Centre for Constitutional Rights filed a
complaint in December with the Federal German Prosecutor's Office against
Rumsfeld accusing him of war crimes and torture in connection with detainee
abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
Rumsfeld made it known immediately after the complaint was filed that he
would not attend the Munich conference unless Germany quashed the legal
action.
German legislation violations
The organisation alleges violations of German legislation, which
outlaws war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide independent
of the place of crime or origin of the accused.
The prosecutor's office in Karlsruhe reportedly is examining the
roughly 170-page complaint to see whether an investigation is warranted.
The Centre for Constitutional Rights said it and four Iraqis allegedly
tortured in US custody filed a complaint with German authorities against
Rumsfeld, former CIA director George Tenet and eight other senior military
and civilian officials over abuses at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere in Iraq.
The organisation 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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"Brutal and sadistic? By what girly-man standards? Compared
to how Saddam treated his prisoners, a bit of humiliation was
a walk in the park. AFAIK, No one died or even lost any blood."
-Albert Nurick, a usenet kook and blatant liar, on the rape,
torture and murder at bu$h's Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0512-10.htm
"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and I really
don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."
-- George W. Bush, March 13, 2002
"The tsunami was a wonderful opportunity to show not just the
US government, but the heart of the American people, and I think
it has paid great dividends for us." Condoleezza Rice
"I think this is the worst government the US has ever
had in its more than 200 years of history. It has
engaged in extraordinarily irresponsible policies not
only in foreign policy and economics but also in social
and environmental policy.....This is not normal government
policy. Now is the time for people to engage in civil
disobedience. I think it's time to protest - as much as
possible....What we have here is a form of looting."
- George A. Akerlof, 2001 Nobel prize laureate economist
http://www.commondreams.org/
http://www.truthout.org/
http://counterpunch.org/
http://responsiblewealth.org/
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President,
or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is
not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable
to the American public."
-- Theodore Roosevelt (1918)
"You know, when bu$h said that he's against nation building,
I didn't realize that he meant only the United States"
-- Al Franken
Don't let bu$h do to the United States what his very close
friend and top campaign contributor, Ken Lay, did to Enron...
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