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Labels: Jeremy Young
Title: Rumsfeld flees France fearing arrest
Source: World News
URL Source: http://wor.ldne.ws/node/8596
Published: Oct 28, 2007
Author: staff
Post Date: 2007-10-28 02:27:39 by out damned spot
31 Comments
Former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld fled France today fearing arrest over charges of "ordering and authorizing" torture of detainees at both the American-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the US military's detainment facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, unconfirmed reports coming from Paris suggest.
US embassy officials whisked Rumsfeld away yesterday from a breakfast meeting in Paris organized by the Foreign Policy magazine after human rights groups filed a criminal complaint against the man who spearheaded President George W. Bush's "war on terror" for six years.
Under international law, authorities in France are obliged to open an investigation when a complaint is made while the alleged torturer is on French
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/r...?ArtNum=204741
Hello Everyone -
Since the diary format is no more here, I thought I would plug my interview of Paul Grondahl today, at my blog the Intrepid Liberal Journal. Paul's book Mayor Erastus Corning: Albany Icon, Albany Enigma was released in paperback by SUNY Press earlier this year. It's a podcast interview.
Click here for the link to my site.
Cheers!