Former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has died at the age of 88, his family said. During his tenure under President George W. Bush, the Republican was the chief planner of the military operation in Iraq.
Former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is dead. The Republican politician died with his family in Taos, New Mexico, the family said in a statement on Wednesday (local time). Rumsfeld was 88 years old.
The Republican was head of the Pentagon from 2001 to 2006 under then-President George W. Bush and chief planner of the military operation in Iraq. Under ex-President Gerald Ford, Rumsfeld was the youngest defense secretary in US history from 1975 to 1977 – the oldest in the Bush cabinet at the time.
Serious allegations against Donald Rumsfeld
Rumsfeld had many critics. In 2007, former US Senator John McCain said of his party colleague that he would “go down in history as one of the worst defense ministers ever”. In connection with the war, Rumsfeld had resigned after a severe defeat by the Republicans in congressional elections.
In 2008, the US Senate accused Rumsfeld of joint responsibility for human rights violations in US detention camps. In particular, the scandal surrounding the prison in Abu Ghraib near Baghdad brought Rumsfeld into distress. Rumsfeld was also accused of having contributed to subsequent ill-treatment in 2002 by authorizing “aggressive interrogation techniques” of suspected terrorists in the US prison camp in Guantánamo in Cuba. After his political career, Rumsfeld switched to the private sector.
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