Lawyers acting for a U.S. advocacy group will today 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 Centre 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 Defence Donald Rumsfeld, former Central
Intelligence Agency chief George Tenet and eight other officials. [more]
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