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Lawsuit bush civilian bunker hit Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://santafenewmexican.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=2144&dept_id=509832&newsid=7413931&PAG=461&rfi=9 http://santafenewmexican.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=2144&dept_id=509832&newsid=7413931&PAG=461&rfi=9 Iraqi Victims of 1991 Bombing Lodge War Crimes Complaint Against Former U.S. President By RAF CASERT | Associated Press 03/18/2003 RUSSELS, Belgium - Seven Iraqi victims of the 1991 Gulf War lodged an official war crimes complaint Tuesday against former U.S. President George Bush, father of the current president, and two current administration officials. The timing of the complaint was closely linked to the current Iraq crisis and was aimed at showing the threat to innocent lives in a new war against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, said Jean-Marie Dermagne, a lawyer for the seven. The Iraqi complaint lodged Tuesday is also targeted against current U.S. officials - Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Colin Powell - and the retired commander of the U.S. troops in Iraq, Gen. Norman Schwartzkopf. The complaint centers on the Feb. 13, 1991, bombing of the al-Amiriya shelter in Baghdad, which claimed the lives of 403 people, including 52 children and 261 women. U.S. aircraft attacked the shelter believing it was a command center. "Our action goes beyond the symbolic," said Dermagne. "It is as much political as it is legal." Under a 1993 law, Belgian courts can hear war crimes cases no matter who allegedly committed them or where. The law was strengthened in 1999 when Belgian courts also were allowed to hear cases of genocide and crimes against humanity. The law has ignited a spate of international cases including ones against Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Cuban President Fidel Castro and Saddam Hussein. In a next step, the Belgian courts will have to decide whether the complaint is admissible. So far the only people convicted under the laws are four Rwandans found guilty of involvement in the 1994 genocide in the central African nation. ©Santa Fe New Mexican 2003

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