Author: Twisty CreekTwisty Creek
Date: Nov 14, 2006 17:17
Group Sues to Have Rumsfeld and Others Investigated by Germany on War
Crimes Charges
Former U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, the one-time commander of all
U.S. military prisons in Iraq, left, looks at Berlin lawyer Wolfgang
Kaleck, from the German Republican Lawyer Association (RAV), right, during
a press briefing in Berlin on Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2006. Karpinski will be
witness on behalf of civil rights activists that filed a suit Tuesday
asking German prosecutors to open a war crimes investigation of outgoing
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and a host of other officials
for their alleged roles in abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and
Guantanamo Bay. (AP Photo/Fritz Reiss)
International Headlines
By DAVID RISING
BERLIN Nov 14, 2006 (AP)
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