As I commented at Digby’s post on Giuliani and torture a little while ago today, the wheels of European justice may grind exceeding slow, but at least they grind.
Rumsfeld hit with torture lawsuit while visiting Paris
Jason Rhyne
Published: Friday October 26, 2007Former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s jaunt to France was interrupted today by an unscheduled itinerary item — he was slapped with a criminal complaint charging him with torture.
Rumsfeld, in Paris for a discussion sponsored by the magazine Foreign Policy, was by tracked down by representatives of a coalition of international human rights groups, who informed the architect of the US invasion of Iraq that they had submitted a torture suit against him in French court.
The filed documents allege that during his tenure, the former defense secretary “ordered and authorized” torture of detainees at both the American-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the US military’s detainment facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
We’ll see all those fuckers in the dock eventually, including Blair. This is not going away. Even though they may go free in their own country and may even be celebrated there, when we’re (by ‘we’ I mean the decnt people of the world who won’t shut up or let this stand) done there won’t be a country anywhere that any one of these torturers can visit without the fear of a heavy constabular hand on their shoulders.
[I nominate Yates of The Yard as a candidate for who should actually arrest Tony Blair. It would give him such satisfaction.]
