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Group to file war crime charges against US
A US advocacy group is preparing to launch a war crimes case in Germany against senior US 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 on Tuesday. CCR says German law allows war criminals to be investigated wherever they may be living. The case, which will be filed at Germany's Federal Prosecutors Office, will charge Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief George Tenet and eight other officials. According to Jen Nessel, head of communications and publications at CCR's New York office, the advocacy group is to present details of its case at several news conferences starting at 1700 GMT on Tuesday.Posted by: Fred 2004-11-29 |
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