Daily archives: November 24, 2006


The Premio Alta Qualit’ delle Citta?

I am in Italy all next week where I have been kindly nominated for an award – I don’t expect to win it, but I have to admit it is very pleasant to have some recognition for my efforts against torture.

You can see the website of the award here, and you can even vote between the finalists. Laura Perna seems like a wonderful woman. As you navigate around the site, unless you speak Italian you have to keep clicking the “English” button in the top left hand corner.

Craig

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German courts to pursue Rumsfeld for war crimes?

From Frontline

Rumsfeld, while resigning, still insisted that the Iraq war was a winnable one and that very few people understood its real nature. A few days after his resignation, a court in Germany prepared to hear a lawsuit charging him and other senior officials, including former Central Intelligence Agency Director George Tenet, with having played a role in the abuses in the Abu Ghraib prison and elsewhere. The plaintiffs are 11 Iraqis and a Saudi, who said that U.S. interrogators tortured them. The lawyers for the plaintiffs said that Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, the U.S. military commander of Iraqi prisons at the time, will testify on their behalf. German law provides “universal jurisdiction”, which allows for the prosecution of war crimes that have taken place anywhere in the world.

More details available from Time

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