A week ago "American and European rights groups filed a legal complaint in France accusing former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of responsibility for torture in Iraq and at the Guantanamo Bay military prison."
"The complaint was filed with the Paris prosecutor's office as Rumsfeld arrived in France for a visit. The rights groups say their complaint could go forward because people suspected of torture can be prosecuted in France if they are on French soil."
Then on Sunday, "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." Though I can't find any major news source as having picked up this story. I don't know when Rumsfeld was scheduled to leave France.
Apparently cases have been filed in Germany, Argentina and Sweden.
Then yesterday "Arab-Americans...took offense to a memo that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld wrote saying that 'oil wealth has made Muslims averse to physical labor.'"
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