From: "Robert G Lewis" 


"Phil Payne"  wrote in
message news:45559bd2{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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
>
>

I have serious concerns about jurisdiction. Just because a country has laws
with 'Universal Jurisdiction' doesn't mean it should.  Remember Dmitry
Sklyarov.

If they want to charge Rumsfeld for actions taken in Germany , say secret
prisons, etc  I don't have a problem. But Iraq ...........

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