Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has cancelled a planned trip to Germany for an upcoming security conference because he has been accused in a German court of committing war crimes. The Center for Constitutional Rights filed a complaint last month accusing Rumsfeld of war crimes and torture in connection with the mistreatment of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib. German laws allows the trial of war crimes regardless of where they are carried out. The Center said it had turned to German prosecutors “as a court of last resort” because the US government “is unwilling to open an independent investigation” and had “refused to join the International Criminal Court”.