Tuesday, February 08, 2005

Gonzales Added to War Crimes Complaint in Germany

CCR filed new documents on January 31, 2005, with the German Federal Prosecutor looking into war crimes charges against high-ranking U.S. officials including Donald Rumsfeld: one includes new evidence that the Fay investigation into Abu Ghraib protected Administration officials – it is a comprehensive and shocking opinion by Scott Horton, an expert on international law and the Chair of the International Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. The second is a letter that details how Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee confirms his role as complicit in the torture and abuse of detainees in Abu Ghraib and elsewhere in Iraq.

1 comment:

Grace Reid said...

On February 10th German prosecutor refused to hear the case against Rumsfeld, Tenent, Cambone, Gonzales and six military officers, concluding that:
“the United States is not unwilling to prosecute high-ranking officials for the abuses at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere in Iraq and that it is up to the United States to pursue initial legal action against the alleged perpetrators of torture and their superiors. The decision claimed that German prosecutors would intervene only if U.S. authorities failed to act.What does this mean? CCR will file an appeal. Now, more than ever, is the time to join with 11,000 other signatories to CCR’s letter to the German prosecutor in support of this case. Its here.