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Former US 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 US military's detainment facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, unconfirmed reports coming from Paris suggest.

US 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.
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22 responses // Rumsfeld flees France fearing arrest

  • http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/weasels.asp
    Axis of Weasels
    Axis of Weasels
    You think it was because he referred to the French as part of the Axis of Weasels? Oh no, that didn't actually happen – but maybe they didn't see this on Snopes. Wouldn't have been surprised though.
    khsing
  • That would've been awesome!
    Dflo
    • Dflo
    • 11 months ago
  • Does anyone have any other sources on this? I'm not familiar with the original poster's source and would like someplace more credible that I've at least heard of.
    TheRealEdwin
  • Rummy's on the lam? LOL Reuters does say that the French did in fact order him to be detained, but does not state whether he was or whether he was "whisked away". Could it be that he himself has been taken to an undisclosed location for waterboarding?
    royalstar23
  • bouyancy00
  • There's more stuff on the Washington Post site:

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/NewsSearch?st=...

    Imagine a world, where these supposedly untouchable war criminals can't travel
    anywhere outside the U.S. What will that mean for this country?
    We could be labeled a 'terrorist harbor' state.
    bouyancy00
  • This vile, sadistic murderer should be brought to trial and executed if found guilty. He is responsible for murdering thousands of innocents, overseeing a program of institutionalized torture and of lying to the people of the United States and of the rest of the world. There is no appreciable difference between this criminal and those who forged and followed the policies of Hitler!
    titothebear
  • Personally I'd love to see the time Rumsfeld, Bush, Cheney, Rove, Libby, Gonzales, and Rice couldn't leave the country for fear of prosecution.
    Marilynn_Murray
  • But there was never any torture at Abu Ghraib found. So ... how can he be detained for it? France is just trying to get back into neutral territory, and hopes that everyone will forget that they were part of the intelligence that we used as a basis to go into Iraq in the first place. The Anit-war movement is guilty of lies, it's just that America is the fat kind in dodge ball - an easy target.
    TedBell
  • No torture found at Abu Ghraib? There absolutely was plenty of torture found there! Lindy England and other pond sum are doing prison time because of the torture they engaged in. The lying Bush administration was able to pass it off as the work of rogues but it was systemic and any child over the age of three weeks knows that! The anti-war movement is guilty of exposing the lies of Bush and unrepentant enablers, such as yourself. France can not be blamed for the forged intelligence used to justify the brutal attack upon the nation of iraq by the United States. Don't come up in here with that weak bunch of garbage! It won't withstand close inspection!
    titothebear
  • Actually she was convicted of one count of conspiracy, four counts of maltreating detainees and one count of committing an indecent act. Nowhere did the word "torture" come up. Facts are facts. And forged intelligence? They were part of that intelligence community. We looked at their intelligence.
    TedBell
  • TedBell, You're kidding??????????
    Marilynn_Murray
  • Well at least other countries recognize war crimes and are trying to arrest these war criminals.
    racinghound
  • racinghound, One can only hope so.
    Marilynn_Murray
  • amazing how others countries are doing what america should do.
    marcounido
  • I wish they had nabbed him. And a note to marcounido, many many Americans are doing the best they can, but we have laws and we are a law-abiding country. Furthermore, lest history forget, America helped France against a certain Nazis force.
    Uckfay
  • GO FRANCE
    ashaiba
  • as agent 86, Maxwell Smart, would have said...
    "Missed him by that much"
    SubwayEd
  • This is great. Put the heat on the untouchables and let them know the world is in opposition to their evil ways.
    stevil72
  • Uckfay "but we have laws and we are a law-abiding country."................. Not with Bush running the show we aren't. Look what we did to Iraq, and what we are about to do to Iran.
    Marilynn_Murray
  • Uckfay...let history forget that after the war was over america captured the nazis who engginered the missiles v1 and v2 and hire them, do you know for what????...NASA!!!
    marcounido
  • History will not be kind to these bloodlusters.
    JanforGore

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