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Rumsfeld Considers Canceling Trip Over War Crimes Suit

HeadlineDec 14, 2004

Meanwhile Donald Rumsfeld is considering canceling a planned trip to Germany after U.S. lawyers filed a lawsuit against Rumsfeld in German courts. This according to a report in the German magazine Focus. The center for constitutional rights filed a complaint accusing Rumsfeld of war crimes and torture in connection with the mistreatment of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib. German laws allows the trial of war crimes regardless of where they are carried out. Rumsfeld said he won’t go to Germany for the Munich Security Conference if the government indicates it will investigate the war crime complaint.

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