Rumsfeld May Attend Security Meeting

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON - Hours after German prosecutors announced they would not investigate Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on war crimes allegations, a Rumsfeld aide said the defense chief probably would attend a prestigious European security conference in Munich on Saturday.

"It appears likely that Secretary Rumsfeld will attend the conference in Munich," his chief spokesman, Lawrence Di Rita, said in a statement issued while traveling with Rumsfeld in Nice, France, where he attended a NATO (news - web sites) meeting Thursday. Di Rita said "scheduling issues" were being worked out.

The Munich conference attracts government, academic and military security experts from around Europe and beyond. The highlight usually is an address by the American secretary of defense. If Rumsfeld had not attended, his chief deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, likely would have substituted.

Rumsfeld's aides did not say there was a direct link between the German prosecutors' announcement and Rumsfeld's decision to attend the conference, but last week Rumsfeld told reporters at the Pentagon (news - web sites) that the legal matter was one factor in considering whether to attend.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050210/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/rumsfeld_germany

[paineinthearse]

1. I remember a news release a week or two back....

...posted here saying he would not attend for some trumped up reason. We speculated he wouldn't attend for fear of arrest and prosecution for war crimes. Rumsfeld is a chickenshit chickenhawk criminal.

Are there any good diggers who can locate that prior thread?

[Rose Siding]

4. I saw that too

They just lie when it suits them.

[NYC]

5. This may be it.

But, I know there was another one.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1575895

...
He conceded in response to questions at a press conference that one problem was the jurisdiction of a German court over a 160-page criminal complaint filed Nov. 30 with the federal prosecutor's office in Germany accusing him of war crimes in connection with detainee abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

That complaint was brought by the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), a group of lawyers representing Iraqis who say they were mistreated by U.S. forces at the Baghdad prison...

From:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=7533075

[SammyBlue]

2. If the Germans are smart, they would say that publicly

Then have Interpol arrest that sack of shit the minute one of Rumsfeld's skin cells touch the terminal in Frankfurt.

[VegasWolf]

3. No direct link, just the next day rummy says he going. Give me an effing

break!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

6. Another Story. What an F'in Liar. Stupid German Prosecutors!

http://www.vermontguardian.com/dailies/0904/0203.shtml

[applegrove]

7. Do all your world travelling now budy - those billions of dollars

Do all your world travelling now buddy - those billions of dollars in retirement money are going to look pretty dull when you cannot leave the USA