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BERLIN (Reuters) - Lawyers acting for a U.S. advocacy group will today file
war crimes charges in Germany against senior U.S. administration officials
for their alleged role in torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
"German law in this area is leading the world," Peter Weiss, Vice President
of the New York-based Centre for Constitutional Rights (CCR), a human rights
group, was quoted as saying in Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper's Tuesday
edition.
According to the group, German law allows war criminals to be investigated
wherever they may be living.
Those to be named in the case to be filed at Germany's Federal Prosecutors
Office include Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld, former Central
Intelligence Agency chief George Tenet and eight other officials.
The group is due to present details of its case at several news conferences
on Tuesday, according to invitations faxed to media organisations.
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