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Article: Prime Minister promises to refer war crimes complaint against Franks to United States
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- May 17, 2003
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Dateline: BRUSSELS, Belgium
Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt on Saturday promised the U.S. administration
he will refer a war crimes complaint against U.S. Gen. Tommy Franks
brought on behalf of 19 civilians wounded or bereaved in the Iraq
war to Washington.
"The law allows the possibility to send the complaint on to the United
States and that is, in practical terms, what I will do," Verhofstadt
told VTM television network.
The complaint, filed last week under Belgium's beleaguered universal
jurisdiction law, has worsened U.S.-Belgian relations, which were
already tense because of Belgium's opposition to the war in Iraq.
The federal prosecutor, who has to ...