...which is exactly the reason Bush won't join the World Court
Tuesday, November 30th, 2004
Red Cross Finds Detainees Intentionally Tortured in
Guantanamo as Lawyers in Germany Charge Rumsfeld, Tenet With War Crimes
in Iraq
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The report also concluded that the military had a set up a system at Guantanamo devised to break the will of the prisoners , and make them wholly dependent on their interrogators through "humiliating acts, solitary confinement, temperature extremes, use of forced positions." The U.S. has rejected the charges.
Meanwhile in Germany, the Center for Constitutional Rights is filing a criminal complaint today on behalf of four Iraqi citizens who allege that a group of U.S. officials committed war crimes in Iraq.
The Iraqis claim they were victims of electric shock, severe beatings, sleep and food deprivation and sexual abuse. Among the officials named in the complaint are Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Former CIA Director George Tenet. Germany's laws on torture and war crimes permits the prosecution of suspected war criminals wherever they may be found.
