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ACLU, Ex-Detainees to Sue Rumsfeld Over Abuse
By Will Dunham, Reuters

WASHINGTON (March 1) - Human rights lawyers will file a lawsuit in
federal court on Tuesday against Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on
behalf of eight men who say they were tortured by U.S. forces in
custody in Iraq and Afghanistan, sources familiar with the case said.

The lawsuit charges that officials at the highest levels of the U.S.
government shoulder ultimate responsibility for the physical and
psychological injuries sustained by the men while in American custody.

It was the latest development in a scandal over ill-treatment of U.S.
war prisoners that has drawn criticism from around the world.

The case will be filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and
Human Rights First in U.S. District Court. The two groups scheduled a
news conference later on Tuesday to announce details.

The groups did not state who would be named in the lawsuit, but
sources familiar with the case said it was Rumsfeld.

"The men represented in the lawsuit were incarcerated in U.S.
detention facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan, where they were
subjected to torture and other cruel and degrading treatment,
including severe and repeated beatings, cutting with knives, sexual
humiliation and assault, mock executions, death threats, and
restraint in contorted and excruciating positions," the two groups
said in a statement.

None of the eight men was charged with a crime, the groups said.

Bill Lann Lee, an assistant U.S. attorney general for civil rights
during the Clinton administration, and retired Rear Adm. John Hutson,
former judge advocate general of the U.S. Navy, were due to
participate in the news conference.

This is not the first legal case over detainee abuse involving
Rumsfeld.

U.S. human rights lawyers in November filed a criminal complaint with
Germany's federal prosecutor charging that Rumsfeld, former CIA
Director George Tenet and other senior officials bore responsibility
for detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

The case was filed in Germany because its laws permit prosecution of
war crimes and human rights violations across national borders.
German officials on Feb. 10 said they would take no action against
Rumsfeld in the case.

An August 2004 report by a four-member panel appointed by Rumsfeld
stated that he and other top Pentagon leaders contributed to an
environment in which prisoners suffered sadistic abuse at Abu Ghraib.

The report said changes made by Rumsfeld in prisoner interrogation
methods at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, contributed
to uncertainty in the field as to what actions were allowed and what
were not. Many detainees in the U.S. war against international
terrorism are held at Guantanamo.

The mistreatment of prisoners became an international scandal after
the appearance last year of pictures showing sexual abuse of men --
naked and bound -- at Abu Ghraib. The administration led by President
Bush says only a handful of low-ranking personnel were involved.

Dozens of other cases have been brought against soldiers for abusing
detainees elsewhere in Iraq and in Afghanistan.

(Additional reporting by Gail Appleson in New York)