Posted on 01/21/2005 6:32:56 AM PST by Woliff
As far as I can tell, the source of everything linking Rumsfeld’s decision to some action by a radical rights group is from Al Jazeera (although they claim a German publication source). That’s a no go to go on.
Presumably they'll be prosecuting Denmark and Britian, too.
Here is the English translation of the complaint:
http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/legal/september_11th/docs/German_COMPLAINT_English_Version.pdf
Here is a quote from DW 12/14/2004
Indicating the US planned to play a similar game of hardball with Germany, Rumsfeld has informed the German government via the US embassy that he will not take part in the annual Munich security conference in February should the investigation proceed.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1427743,00.html
The nazis Facist regime that is in control of the Euro agenda with France is pushing the United States at the same time these jerks are part of the U.N. oil for food scandal and the slaes of arms to Saddam Hussein that are being used against us right now.
If anyone should be put on trial it is them.
Ops4 God Bless America!
Following a scoop by the Hamburg magazine Stern, German law enforcement is investigating four firms for illegal arms trading with Iraq while the country was under a U.N. embargo.
Germany's customs investigators confirmed this week that they raided the offices of four German companies suspected of providing technology and material for Iraq's secret weapons program.
The companies, located in four small cities in southern Germany, are accused of delivering the equipment to Iraq through other countries in 2000. The Customs Office said the evidence came from the magazine Stern, which turned over documents found in archives of the Bashair Trading Company, allegedly the center of Saddam Hussein's weapons acquisition program in Baghdad.
Alongside German companies, firms in Poland, Russia, South Korea, even the United States evaded the United Nations-imposed embargo on Iraq, according to the documents. The weapons embargo forbade companies from trading with Iraq but some continued to do so, risking serious sanctions.
Investigators seized files and computers from the headquarters of the companies KSB AG in Bavaria, Katex Textilien GmbH in Hesse, and MEA Machinery and MEA International North Rhine Westphalia.
No WMD parts delivered
KSB allegedly delivered six chemical pumps, ordered in December 2000 and delivered into Iraq through Jordan. Katex delivered 80 acid pumps in April 2000, through a Jordanian firm. The remaining two companies delivered precision lasers, ordered in September 2000, to Baghdad via a Turkish company. The companies however didn't deliver parts to nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, according to the Stern report.
Investigators say that in some cases it is still unclear if the company's executives were aware of the weapons trade. But Stern recovered one document from an MEA executive that praised the partnership between his firm and Iraq.
Germany has long enjoyed a reputation for high-quality and sophisticated products in the Arab world and Hussein's search for hi-tech weapons and durable parts invariably led him to it during the course of his rule. Since the U.N. imposed the embargo on Iraq following Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, numerous German firms have come under investigation for illicit trade with the rogue state.
In the months leading up to the United States' military invasion in March 2003, a weapons dossier released by the Iraqi government named 80 German firms said to have worked with the country in developing its weapons program. The illegal arms trade continued all the way up until 2001, according to the dossier.
So what of this info? Germany helped cause the Saddam problem we are fighting to rectify.
Ops4 God Bless America!
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,980147,00.html
Link to the above article.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder discussed with the Chinese government on selling a German nuclear material processing plant during his visit to China early in December this year. Germany was astir when the news came because it touched the sensitive nerve of the coalition government of the German Social Democratic Party and the German Green Party, that is, the difference between the two parties over the utilization of nuclear energy. The Green Party was built up through the anti-nuclear movement. Recent days have seen fierce wrangling between the Social Democratic Party and the Green Party. However, viewed from recent development, things are being transformed toward the direction of approved export.
So whem China holds the Nuclear card up and we have to defend an ally in the future, will germany be held accountable?
http://english.people.com.cn/200312/25/eng20031225_131223.shtml
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This is nonsense and wasting both or times. I don’t read radical human rights complaints. If the DW link is relevant to any of this it’s just stating the obvious that prosecutions would hurt US-German relations. Then it even backs away from that in this statement: “DiRita said he did not know whether the United States had raised specific concerns directly with the German government.”
I don’t have time for this, but if you find a credible source drawing a connection between Rumsfeld’s cancellation and this worthless group, I’d be interested.
Actually, Bill Clinton did sign it, but George W. revoked the presidential signature. That's one of the huge differences between a Democrat president and a conservative Republican president.
Even better is that until the US Senate ratifies a Treaty, a President's signature or non-signature matters not one whit...
In fact, a Treaty only becomes law when a President signs a Treaty AFTER the US Senate ratifies said Treaty. The one that Presidents do before Senate ratification are just for "show" to make the evening-news and the front-page of the next day's paper...
dvwjr
Never thought I would see the day when freeing 55 million people from tyrannical dispair would be considered a crime.
What a fitting qoute from MT
BTW, what makes you so sure you are perfect?
The word "perfect" is linked with the word "stranger" in many cases. Suprisingly, my Freeper name comes up 10th in the google search.
The name came (among other places) from an album and song by Deep Purple in 1984.
The song is in 5/4 time and I dig the odd time signatures.
Yeah, I was just trying to make a joke! The words are coupled often, and mean someone who you have never met in your life before. But I thought it was amusing to think of it as a stranger who was perfect in all respects....
I don't think so. Rumsfeld doesn't sound very Jewish to me. Sounds like a solid German name.
Rumsfeld visited his German family in 1972 and apparently writes letters from time to time. Here is a picture of his aunt from a newspaper article: http://www.roteswinterhude.de/standpauke.htm. You can also give her a quick call and say hello. Her number and those of the other Rumsfelds are in the phonebook at www.teleauskunft.de. But remember the time difference and don't ring her in the middle of the night or during her afternoon nap :). Looks like they all come from this small village near Bremen.
Originally the name is pronounced like Roumsfeld.
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