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CCR SEEKS CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION IN GERMANY INTO CUPALBILITY OF U.S. OFFICIALS IN ABU GHRAIB TORTURE

German Prosecutor Asked to Meet Obligations under Law Requiring Investigation into Torture and War Crimes

Synopsis

In a historic effort to hold high-ranking U.S. officials accountable for brutal acts of torture including the widely publicized abuses carried out at Abu Ghraib, on Tuesday November 30, 2004, CCR and four Iraqi citizens will file a criminal complaint with the German Federal Prosecutor’s Office at the Karlsruhe Court, Karlsruhe, Germany. Under the doctrine of universal jurisdiction suspected war criminals may be prosecuted irrespective of where they are located.

The four Iraqis were victims of gruesome crimes including severe beatings, sleep and food deprivation, hooding and sexual abuse. (Further details of the treatment of the complainants will be provided after the filing.)

The U. S. officials charged include Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Former CIA Director George Tenet, Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Dr. Steven Cambone, Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, Major General Walter Wojdakowski, Major General Geoffrey Miller, Brigadier General Janis L. Karpinski, Lieutenant Colonel Jerry L. Phillabaum, Colonel Thomas Pappas, and Lieutenant Colonel Stephen L. Jordan.

Please check back on our home page in the next day for an opportunity to write the German prosecutor in support of the investigation: it is critical that he hear from as many people as possible so he feels worldwide pressure to pursue the case.

http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/reports/report.asp?ObjID=CXrMV1qEio&Content=470

Whoever finds the follow up letter at their site where we can write the prosector, please let us know, okay? I think it will be posted after a prosecutor is assigned.

Note: This is the Center for Constitutional Rights. They successfully won a Supreme Court ruling on behalf of some Guantanamo Bay prisoners. As a result of the case, the Supreme Court ruled that the US may NOT hold people there indefinitely, without legal representation.

They are also parties to a civil rights lawsuit filed against NYC for the detention of 2,000 protestors during the RNC.

If we AREN'T gonna march, the least we can do is make our voices heard in Germany, that we are NOT in favor of torture!!!