RIGHTS GROUP FILE WAR CRIMES SUIT AGAINST RUMSFELD: Spring time for Rummy in Germany

Civil rights groups filed a suit with German prosecutors on Tuesday seeking war crimes charges against outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for the alleged abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo prisons.

"I don't expect he'll go to jail. I think he should go to jail," Peter Weiss of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) told a public presentation of the suit.

"As far as I'm concerned -- and my colleagues agree -- I would be satisfied if he spent the rest of his life in shame."

Rumsfeld resigned after Democrats wrested power from the Republicans in last week's midterm elections, partly due to dismay over the Iraq war.

The New York-based CCR is one of several groups which filed more than 300 of pages of documents with the Federal Prosecutor's Office in Karlsruhe, which confirmed receipt of the complaint...http://tinyurl.com/ydyloc

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