Rummy on War Crime charges in Germany - Nuremburg The Sequel
German law provides "universal jurisdiction" allowing for the prosecution of war crimes and related offenses that take place anywhere in the world.
Time reports that new legal documents, to be filed next week with Germany's top prosecutor by 11 Iraqi prisoners held at Abu Ghraib and Mohammad al-Qahtani, a Saudi held at Guantanamo, whom the U.S. has identified as the so-called "20th hijacker" . These will include written testimony from Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, the one-time commander of all U.S. military prisons in Iraq which claims inter alia ..
"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 ."
The Plaintiffs seek a criminal investigation and prosecution of ex Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld ....
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
Former CIA director George Tenet
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
Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff David S. Addington
General Ricardo Sanchez - Senior Military officer in Iraq
General Geoffrey Miller Ex commander of Guantanamo
Major General Walter Wojdakowski - Senior Military officer in Iraq
Col. Thomas Pappas, - Ex head of military intelligence at Abu Ghraib.
Now that is the best fucking news of the week.
2 comments:
Charges against Rumsfeld have been filed in Germany in the past, but the charges have been turned down by the court on the base that Rumsfeld could be charged in the US (which of course never happend). So don't get your hopes up too high...
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The Times article mentions this and reckons this time around they have abetter chance. An intersting lawyers view is available ..
Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law, president of the National Lawyers Guild,
see biog http://tinyurl.com/yfxpzl
writes at the JURIST website (Her new book, Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law, will be published this spring by PoliPointPress.)
http://tinyurl.com/y88jok
" .... the war criminals must be brought to justice - beginning with Donald Rumsfeld. ....... Donald Rumsfeld may be out of sight, but he will not be out of mind. The chickens have come home to roost."
Although she sounds a bit like she might be in favour of the Mussolini school of lawyers.
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