AlterNet: Rumsfeld Flees France, Fearing Arrest: "Former U.S. 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 U.S. military's detainment facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, unconfirmed reports coming from Paris suggest.
U.S. 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 soil."
This is very funny. As the report indicates, the story is unconfirmed, but I would not doubt that Rumsfeld's exit from France was due to the possibility of arrest. I would like to see the results if the government of France actually investigates the allegations.
Monday, October 29, 2007
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