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On Sunday, January 23, 2005, at 01:02 AM, Kevin Robert Dean wrote:
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> Rumsfeld scraps Munich visit over war probe
> <http://www.expatica.com/source/
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> 21 January 2005
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> MUNICH - United States Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has cancelled
> a planned visit 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.
>
> Rumsfeld had made it known immediately after the complaint was filed
> that he would not attend the
> Munich conference unless Germany quashed the legal action.
>
> The organisation alleges violations of German legislation which
> outlaws war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide independent
> of the place of crime or origin of the accused.
>
> The prosecutor's office in Karlsruhe reportedly is examining the
> roughly 170-page complaint to see if an investigation is warranted.
>
> The Center for Constitutional Rights said it and four Iraqis tortured
> in US custody had filed a complaint with German authorities against
> Rumsfeld, former CIA director George Tenet and eight other senior
> military and civilian officials over abuses at Abu Ghraib and
> elsewhere in Iraq.
>
> The organization said it had turned to German prosecutors "as a court
> of last resort" because the US government "is unwilling to open an
> independent investigation" and had "refused to join the International
> Criminal Court".
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> Several of those it wants investigated are stationed in Germany, it
> added.
>
> DPA
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If every rebellion begins with the idea that conquerers on horseback
Are not many-legged gods, that they too drown
If plunged in the river,
Then this is the year.
-Martin Espada