Dear Americans,  

 

From a U.S. perspective, the slumbering North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, may not deserve a lot of attention. Nevertheless, the is good reason to pay attention to current events in the NATO alliance, where the next secretary general will expectedly be appointed in a few weeks from now.  

 

One of the candidates to the posting is an infamous Danish war criminal, who was an accomplice to your former president George W. Bush\'s aggression on Iraq. His name is Anders Fogh Rasmussen, and he currently holds the position of prime minister of Denmark.

 

Not that the office of NATO secretary general is in any way influential, but appointing Fogh Rasmussen for the office would imply the honouring a man of ill reputation.  

 

If the U.S. should at one point impeach George W. Bush for misconducting his office during his eight-year reign, it would seem awkward to have one of his European sycophants as head of the NATO alliance.  

 

Five years ago, when I was employed by the Danish defence intelligence service (the equivalent of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency), I disclosed secret reports, mostly copied from documents received from the U.S. and the U.K., revealing that Fogh Rasmussen lied intentionally to the Danish parliament, when he claimed to have firm intelligence documenting that Iraq under its former dictator Saddam Hussein was defying U.N. resolutions demanding it to cease its WMD programs and allow for inspections.  

 

For this my contribution to shed light on the events leading to a motley U.S.-headed group of states invading Iraq in March 2003 without a U.N. mandate, I served four months in prison where, on top of the incarceration proper, my under-age daughter was harrassed by the Danish authorities.  

 

Under normal circumstances, I would be proud to see a Dane as head of an international organization, but not this one, who should be tried according to the Nuremberg charter as an international major war criminal.  

 

Matters aren\'t settled yet, so I strongly urge all of you Americans to put pressure on the U.S. government to refuse Fogh Rasmussen\'s candidacy.  

 

Yours sincerely Frank Grevil Copenhagen, Denmark frank@grevil.dk  http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8a96aa0c-0cd2-11de-a555-0000779fd2ac.html http://tinyurl.com/amxaau