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The Belgian Foreign Minister Louis Michel has fiercely criticized the case brought against the commander of US forces in Iraq, General Tommy Franks. The lawsuit was filed by the Belgian lawyer Jan Fermon on behalf of nineteen Iraqis. They say General Franks' troops are guilty of at least twenty separate instances of war crimes. The Belgian minister says the Iraqis are misusing Belgium's universal competence law, which makes it possible to bring charges of human rights violations in Belgium, regardless of where the alleged crimes took place. A federal prosecutor will decide whether or not the case is referred to...

Further fierce bombing is expected tonight as the focus of the war shifted to the Iraqi capital.United States Coailtion Commander Tommy Franks has been given the 'green light' to move on Baghdad when he feels the time is right United States forces said.There is expected to be futher 'softening up' of the Republican Guard positions South of the city.Meanwhile in a defiant statement broadcast on Iraqi TV Saddam Hussein called on his people to take part in 'Jihad' -or holy war against Allied troops.

From Battle To Bible, War General Is True-Blue Most call him sir. His grandchildren call him Pooh. But the whole world listens when Gen. Tommy Franks, leader of the war on terrorism, speaks. From Battle To Bible, War General Is True-Blue TAMPA - The four stars stitched to his collars reveal his rank, but his eyes are the key to Army Gen. Tommy Franks. They are glacial blue, and when he talks about the war on terror - the war he's running as the man in charge of U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base - they flare as...