From: "Rich Gauszka" 

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1557842,00.html

Lawyers for the plaintiffs say that one of the witnesses who will testify
on their behalf is former Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, the one-time
commander of all U.S. military prisons in Iraq. Karpinski - who the lawyers
say will be in Germany next week to publicly address her accusations in the
case - has issued a written statement to accompany the legal filing, which
says, in part: "It was clear the knowledge and responsibility [for
what happened at Abu Ghraib] goes all the way to the top of the chain of
command to the Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld ."

Along with Rumsfeld, Gonzales and Tenet, the other defendants in the case
are Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Stephen Cambone; former
assistant attorney general Jay Bybee; former deputy assisant attorney
general John Yoo; General Counsel for the Department of Defense William
James Haynes II; and David S. Addington, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief
of staff. Senior military officers named in the filing are General Ricardo
Sanchez, the former top Army official in Iraq; Gen. Geoffrey Miller, the
former commander of Guantanamo; senior Iraq commander, Major General Walter
Wojdakowski; and Col. Thomas Pappas, the one-time head of military
intelligence at Abu Ghraib.

"Phil Payne"  wrote in
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> I've got a German lawyer friend digging on this.
>
> http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/11/11/charges_soug
ht_against_rumsfeld/
>
> "Charges sought against Rumsfeld
>
> Groups allege he had role in torture
>
> WASHINGTON -- Twelve former detainees in the US war on terror will ask
> German prosecutors next week to indict Defense Secretary Donald H.
> Rumsfeld
> and other top Bush administration officials on charges related to torture
> and other war crimes, a lawyer for the group said yesterday.
>
> Eleven Iraqis who were held at the Abu Ghraib prison and other US-run
> facilities in Iraq and a Saudi former detainee at the US prison at
> Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will file a criminal complaint Nov. 14, said Michael
> Rattner of the Center for Constitutional Rights."
>
>
>
> It seems reasonably certain that Shrub, Cheney, Powell, Rumsfled and Rice
> will not be able to leave the continental USA without fear of arrest on
> international warrants within three years or so.
>
> Sad that the USA's judicial system is delegating the clean-up to the rest
> of
> the world - it will only serve to extend the time required for the USA to
> reintegrate itself.  We're starting to look at that taking up to half a
> century.
>
> --
>  Phil Payne
>  http://www.isham-research.co.uk
>  +44 7833 654 800
>
>

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