Post by Moses on Dec 3, 2004 10:45:14 GMT -5
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U.S. Group to File Iraq War Crimes Case in Germany
Reuters
Nov 29, 2004 — BERLIN (Reuters) - Lawyers acting for a U.S. advocacy group will Tuesday file war crimes charges in Germany against senior U.S. administration officials for their alleged role in torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
"German law in this area is leading the world," Peter Weiss, vice president of the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), a human rights group, was quoted as saying in Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper's Tuesday edition.
According to the group, German law allows war criminals to be investigated wherever they may be living.
Those to be named in the case to be filed at Germany's Federal Prosecutors Office include Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, former Central Intelligence Agency chief George Tenet and eight other officials.
The group is due to present details of its case at several news conferences Tuesday, according to invitations faxed to media organizations.