Germany Won't Prosecute Rumsfeld

Germany's federal prosecutor will not pursue a criminal complaint accusing US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld of war crimes in Iraq.

Even though a German law requires German prosecutors to investigate allegations of war crimes even if they are not committed by Germans or in Germans, German Federal Prosecutor Kay Nehm said US authorities bore the initial responsibility to do so.

He added that his office could only act if US officials failed to do so, but said this was not the case. A US organization called Center for Constitutional Rights had filed the complained against Rumsfeld and other high-ranking officials in Germany for the role they played in torture and abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.

source:
deutsche.welle

boy,
im sure mister rummy is happy that this whole "war crimes" situation didnt get out of hand.
it would be a real bummer not to be able to go to germany, after all there is a few u.s. military bases there to visit once in a while.

he has a reason to smile now.