Congressman Pablo Longueira of the Independent Democratic Union, who is opposed to the general's prosecution, recently called the legal interpretation behind Judge Guzman's prosecution "a ridiculous joke".
Mr. Wahid had begun calling for the resignation after an independent commission recommended the general's prosecution for his role in the deaths of hundreds of people in East Timor after the former Dutch colony voted in August to become independent of Indonesia.
After a meeting on Tuesday morning with Dominic Grieve, the attorney general, the prosecution told the high court in London it would not appeal against the ruling, and reporting restrictions were lifted.
The home secretary's announcement last week that he was "minded" to release Pinochet may have helped Chile's centre-left government to its narrow election victory which has, in turn, raised hopes that the general will face prosecution on his return.
General Dan Halutz, the I.D.F.'s chief of staff, resigned during an investigation that identified "grave failings" in his generals' prosecution of the war.
Asked about the general lack of prosecutions of high-powered Wall Street executives, Levin replied: "There is still time".
In the exchange the general said that the prosecution of such cases by the civilian justice system was "a bunch of crap" and suggested that the colonel "create a mafia" to discredit the prosecutors.
It also fits the general strategy of the prosecution to depict Mr. Taylor as the mastermind of the killings, a strategy, if successful, that could make it easier to convince a jury to sentence him to death.
What happens to that, as well as the extradition request for him from Spain, will depend on whether the Law Lords decide that the general has immunity from prosecution as a former head of state.
The legal rulings in the Pinochet case rejected an argument that the general was immune from prosecution by virtue of his official status, and legal experts say the case also expands the power to criminally prosecute certain human rights violations -- that occur anywhere -- to the courts of every nation.
