Rumsfeld on the run!

**rideit** · 10-29-2007, 03:15 PM

Rumsfeld flees France fearing arrest
Sat, 10/27/2007 - 08:45

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.

US embassy officials whisked Rumsfeld away yesterday from a breakfast meeting in Paris organized by the Foreign Policy magazine after human rights groups filed a criminal complaint against the man who spearheaded President George W. Bush's "war on terror" for six years.

Under international law, authorities in France are obliged to open an investigation when a complaint is made while the alleged torturer is on French soil.

According to activists in France, who greeted Rumsfeld shouting "murderer" and "war criminal" at the breakfast meeting venue, US embassy officials remained tight-lipped about the former defense secretary's whereabouts citing "security reasons".

Anti-torture protesters in France believe that the defense secretary fled over the open border to Germany, where a war crimes case against Rumsfeld was dismissed by a federal court. But activist point out that under the Schengen agreement that ended border checkpoints across a large part of the European Union, French law enforcement agents are allowed to cross the border into Germany in pursuit of a fleeing fugitive.

"Rumsfeld must be feeling how Saddam Hussein felt when US forces were hunting him down," activist Tanguy Richard said. "He may never end up being hanged like his old friend, but he must learn that in the civilized world, war crime doesn't pay."

International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) along with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), and the French League for Human Rights (LDH) filed the complaint on Thursday after learning that Rumsfeld was scheduled to visit Paris.

**Odin** · 10-29-2007, 03:16 PM

First on a thread destined to go................ 3 pages

at least.
(unless we are doing an over under)

When can we start gambling on threads? And who gets to be the bookie?

**rideit** · 10-29-2007, 03:20 PM

Just the gratuitous french-bashing should occupy two pages.

**Odin** · 10-29-2007, 03:21 PM

Hmmm, We will have to guard against gratuitous thread tampering. Troll's could wreck the sanctitiy of sanctioned tgr betting.

**Adolf Allerbush** · 10-29-2007, 03:22 PM

Originally Posted by rideit

Just the gratuitous french-bashing should occupy two pages.

Probably another two pages worth of posts calling people "librodoche".

**Hutch** · 10-29-2007, 03:24 PM

**rideit** · 10-29-2007, 03:25 PM

**Odin** · 10-29-2007, 03:27 PM

ALL BETS ARE NOW OFF!

There is a distinct attempt at pandering. and filandering.

but no attempts at panetierre.

Which is just disappointing.

**summit** · 10-29-2007, 03:28 PM

I'm sad to see an American running from a Frenchman.

I'm happy because Rumsfeld should catch shit for his actions.

I'm sad because it would be a further embarrassment to my country.

I'm happy because his getting caught might mean he would never come back to the US.

I'm sad because if he gets away, he'll never leave the US.

**rideit** · 10-29-2007, 03:30 PM

How about a side serving of Flammekeuche?

**Tippster** · 10-29-2007, 03:31 PM

In a way this is fucking awesome.

**Odin** · 10-29-2007, 03:31 PM

**Tourette Dude** · 10-29-2007, 03:31 PM

Originally Posted by rideit

US embassy officials whisked Rumsfeld away yesterday from a breakfast meeting in Paris

Come on its only torture, the poor guy didn't even get to finish his breakfast.

**Odin** · 10-29-2007, 03:33 PM

Straight from the AP Wire:

Rumsfeld quoted as saying, "Darfur is all made up, I bet if you went over there right now you would find all those fellows playing croquet and reading the New Republic."

**rideit** · 10-29-2007, 03:36 PM

**Tippster** · 10-29-2007, 03:41 PM

Any Thread with Melissa Theuriau in it is teh Awesome by definition, definately.

**Tourette Dude** · 10-29-2007, 03:43 PM

Originally Posted by Odin

I'll take that for breakfast!

**rideit** · 10-29-2007, 03:45 PM

**Odin** · 10-29-2007, 03:47 PM

HE MIGHT RUN TO SWITZERLAND!

**Odin** · 10-29-2007, 03:51 PM

OR GERMANY!

**rideit** · 10-29-2007, 03:51 PM

He's gonna need a pair of these, for when Tommy Lee Jones inevitably catches up to him:

**rideit** · 10-29-2007, 03:54 PM

How about Hungary?

**Odin** · 10-29-2007, 03:55 PM

HE better be carefull about Luxembourg. Even the princesses there are packing.

**Odin** · 10-29-2007, 03:57 PM

Dammit rideit. Don't make this NSFW, make it NSFYBEBWBCBTWF

(not safe for your bosses eyes but wont be caught by the web filter)

Somehow I think a website called smutmodels, is going to trigger some filtering software.