Michael Ratner, the president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, has gone to Germany to file a new case charging outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld with war crimes for the authorization of torture at Guantanamo Bay. The Center for Constitutional Rights previously filed a criminal complaint in Germany in 2004 on behalf of Iraqi citizens who claimed that US officials committed war crimes in the country, with Rumsfeld being among the officials named. The Iraqis claimed they were victims of electric shock, severe beatings, sleep and food deprivation, and sexual abuse. Current German legislation concerning torture and war crimes allows for the prosecution of suspected war criminals wherever they may be found. There is a delicious irony in the fact that Rumsfeld may be tried for war crimes by the Germans.

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