Forget Berlin

Rummy being sued for war crimes in Germany, under their rather novel “universal jurisdiction” they granted themselves for war crimes investigations.

The November 14, 2006, criminal complaint is a request for the German Federal Prosecutor to open an investigation and, ultimately, a criminal prosecution that will look into the responsibility of high-ranking U.S. officials for authorizing war crimes in the context of the so-called "War on Terror." The complaint is brought on behalf of 12 torture victims – 11 Iraqi citizens who were held at Abu Ghraib prison and one Guantánamo detainee – and is being filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), the Republican Attorneys’ Association (RAV) and others, all represented by Berlin Attorney Wolfgang Kaleck.

Rummy’s not in any real danger of being snatched (and if he is in danger, you should be going for for Kissinger first, bitches), but I hope he wasn’t planning a summer trip along the Eder.