Rummy fears arrest for war crimes

Fearing arrest by German authorities for war crimes, Donald Rumsfeld has cancelled a planned trip to Munich.

Rumsfeld has informed the German government via the US embassy he will not take part at the Munich Security Conference in February, conference head Horst Teltschik said.

The New York-based Center 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.

Full article. By the way, remember that Alberto Gonzales was also named in the case.

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  • http://home.earthlink.net/~kevin.omeara/2005/01/gonzales-memorandum-approving-of.html Kevin

    This is a very interesting article and post. I posted on my BLOG (Linked to my name) on January 7th that one of the MAIN reasons they did not give prisoners Coverage under the Geneva Convention is that it protects Bush et. al. from being prosecuted under the war crimes act. We know they are thinking of this hard. What are they afraid of?

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