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| Group to file war crime charges against US |
| 2004-11-29 |
| 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 |
| #7 The **ONLY** punishment they're allowed to inflict on detainees is "time out" in an isolation cell-- air conditioned, with Al Jazeera on the television. The silver lining in all of this is that capturing these types has been made pointless. Dispatching them on the battlefield will make things a lot neater and save both us and the Iraqi government time, money, and pain. :) |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-11-29 11:13:29 PM |
| #6 My son is in an Army National Guard unit that is providing security at one of Iraq's military prisons. Thanks to the politically-motivated PC bullshit that's followed in the wake of Abu Ghraib, my son's job is significantly more difficult than it was before, and his life is in significantly greater danger doing his job. Thanks to the Democratic Party, their fellow-travellers in the media, and so-called "human rights" groups such as this, guards at these facilities are no longer allowed to use **ANY** kind of force on detainees, except for deadly force when their own lives are in certain, immediate danger. Gone are the riot guns, with beanbag rounds. Gone is the pepper spray. They've got their M-16s and their Beretta sidearms, and that's it. The **ONLY** punishment they're allowed to inflict on detainees is "time out" in an isolation cell-- air conditioned, with Al Jazeera on the television. Fights and riots are a near-daily occurrance. They used to intervene to break these up, but no more; what happens, happens. These are the real, ACTUAL effects of all the senseless hand-wringing over Abu Ghraib. I piss on these "human rights" groups. I piss on Human Rights Watch. I piss on the ICRC. And I piss on the Democratic Party. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2004-11-29 9:39:36 PM |
| #5 Somehow turning their courts into a Scott Peterson circus doesn't stirke me as something the German judiciary will appreciate, even if they do get interviewed by some chick named Greta. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-11-29 9:06:22 PM |
| #4 Remember the reason we really have troops in Germany? The very original reason? A phone call to Herr Schröder might be in order. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-11-29 9:03:17 PM |
| #3 The nazi war criminal prosecutions had something this action pointedly lacks: objective evidence against the accused, as well as the failure by the accused to take action against the perpetrators. On the other hand, as a clearly fivolous legal proceeding aimed solely at inflammatory propaganda, this action is evidence of a concious attempt to incite genocide and terrorism against Americans. Jessel and his fellow propagandists can therefore be tried and hanged under the Streicher precedent. Follow his path, share his fate. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-11-29 8:47:59 PM |
| #2 pussies should file it here in the US |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-11-29 8:21:27 PM |
| #1 They are going to do this and expect to live? They being in New York and all crime could strike close to home. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-11-29 8:18:10 PM |