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Because if he does, he may be arrested for war crimes."A group of American human rights lawyers asked German prosecutors Monday to investigate U.S. Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales on allegations of war crimes as part of a requested probe of U.S. officials' actions in Iraq, the group said.
Attorneys from the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights filed a suit with German federal prosecutors last November charging that U.S. officials, including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and former CIA director George Tenet, are responsible for acts of torture committed at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
German media have speculated that Rumsfeld will not attend an upcoming international security conference in Munich later this month because of the lawsuit, although officials in Washington insist there has been no final decision on whether the defense secretary will attend. |
It's an interesting turn of events, and I seem to remember something a while ago about rumors Canada would try and arrest U.S. administration officials if they entered Canada... but of course nothing came of that. This, however, is a different case. The reason Germany was chosen is, at the very least, because it has international war crimes laws. An international war crimes suspect can be arrested in Germany under german law and tried in the international court. However, I'm willing to bet that since laws like that exist in other countries, Rumsfeld's planned trip to Germany is a pretty good secondary reason to have him investigated in Germany.
What do you guys think? Germany in the axis of evil? Doesn't it make you feel all warm and squishy inside just thinking about how awful our administration is that other countries have started talking about trying to arrest them for war crimes? Doesn't this seem a bit ironic in some way?
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