Though he has resigned as Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld is expected to be accused of war crimes in a lawsuit to be filed next week in Germany.
The Center for Constitutional Rights will file the suit on behalf of a group of Iraqi detainees as well as the so-called 20th hijacker, who is currently being held at Guantanamo Bay.
"The former secretary actually authorized a series of interrogation techniques," said Michael Ratner, President of CCR. "They included the use of dogs, stripping, hooding, stressed positions, chaining to the floor, sexual humiliation and those types of activities."
Those techniques, he says, amount to torture and violate the Geneva Conventions. Ratner will be traveling to Berlin next week and plans to file the suit on Tuesday.
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As much as I'd feel a little warmer inside if I could trust in Jon Snow to be some kind of balanced voice within the MSM, perhaps on pointing out the obviousness and necessity of Rumsfeld being charged with war crimes, here is a sad little exchange with someone from the Media Lens board: http://www.medialens.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=7568#7568
There's also a Pilger article about why Saddam can hang but Rumsfeld will not here: http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15554.htm
That Pilger article is very interesting...
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