BRUSSELS (AFP) - Relatives of victims of the Iraq war were expected to file a lawsuit alleging war crimes against US General Tommy Franks, the commander of coalition forces during the conflict, a lawyer said.

The plaintiffs, mostly Iraqis, were filing the suit under a disputed Belgian "universal competence" law which allows charges to be brought regardless of where the alleged crimes took place.

Their suit relates to about 20 alleged crimes during the Iraq war, including three cases in which US troops are accused of firing on ambulances, said lawyer Jan Fermon.
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And so it begins.
Is this the court the US decided to ignore recently? The US won't allow our soldiers to be tried for war crimes by anyone else, and having just offered GEN Franks the top job (Chariman, Joint Chiefs)(he declined) the White House will certainly not entertain any communication from a court where his name is used in the same sentence along with the words "war crimes".