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always shoot the messenger.
June 17, 2007
WORLD Abu Ghraib probe
hurt career, general alleges By David S. Cloud
New York Times News Service WASHINGTON -- The Army general
who investigated
the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal has said he was
forced into retirement by civilian Pentagon
officials because he had been
"overzealous." In an interview with The New Yorker, his
first since retiring in January, Maj. Gen.
Antonio Taguba said that he was ostracized
after he completed his investigation
in 2004 and that in early 2006 he was ordered,
without explanation, to retire within a year. "They always shoot the messenger," Taguba said.
"To be accused of being overzealous and disloyal,
that cuts deep into me." In a brief interview on Saturday in which he
confirmed his comments to The New Yorker,
Taguba said that Thomas Hall, the assistant
secretary of defense for reserve affairs, was the
first to tell him, in January 2006, that he was
being forced out. Taguba was assigned to the Office of Reserve
Affairs at the Pentagon after the Abu Ghraib
investigation had been completed. His March 2004
report on the scandal found that "numerous
incidents of sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal
abuses were inflicted on several detainees" by
American soldiers in late 2003. Taguba also criticized former Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld for saying he was unaware of
the extent of the abuse and that he had not seen
photographs documenting it until months after the
Army began an investigation in January 2004. Taguba
said senior Pentagon officials had been briefed
about the case and photos early in the
investigation. Lawrence Di Rita, a former top aide to
Rumsfeld, said Taguba's assertion that he was
ostracized as a result of his investigation
"is simply false." He added, "Secretary Rumsfeld
believed Gen. Taguba managed a difficult assignment
to the best of his abilities." Copyright © 2007,
Chicago Tribune 
 
Baltimore
Sun Soldier's
diary details abuse at Iraq prison - implicates
CIA and others |
Iraqi
Prisoner Images 'Disgust' Bush, Anger Arabs
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Abu Ghraib prison - US
Army scandal Arab
press publishes the disturbing photos |
Text
of the historic broadcast by CBS
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No surprises here
Robert
Fisk: Israeli Mossad and Shin Bet Associated
with Prison Torture
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It gets worse:
Seymour
M Hersh in latest New Yorker (May 9, 2004):
"Chain of Command".
How the Department of Defense mishandled the
disaster at Abu Ghraib
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Robert Fisk:
Betrayed
by Images of Our Own Racism
| Israeli
Intelligence lessons for US interrogation
officers in Iraq
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Historic document's
text International
Red Cross report on the treatment by the
Coalition Forces of prisoners of war in Iraq
| Classified
Report of Maj.-General Antonio M. Taguba:
Article 15-6 Investigation of the 800th
Military Police Brigade
[pdf, 85K]
| Geneva
Convention (1949): The Protection of Civilian
Persons in Time of War
[pdf,
108K]
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David Irving:
A
Radical's Diary on the Abu Ghraib prison
scandal
"Saddam, you're toast. 'Died of natural causes
in captivity.' 'Shot while trying to escape,'
whatever. That's the subliminal message, the
grayed-out caption to the pictures of Lynndie
England..."-
Humiliation
complete New
Zealand Herald says things are going to get very
messy for US in Iraq |
Drudge: Washington
Post planning to unleash more prisoner abuse
photos
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Censorship of GI's
tightened Halliburton
Pulls the Plug on GIs' e-Communications
| Harvard
Law Professor Alan Dershowitz says U.S. Needs
Improved Torture Tactics
Okay for some
"Bundeswehrprofessor
[Michael Wolffsohn, jüdisch,
Israeli-Bürger] räsoniert
über Vorzüge der
Folter": German
professor Michael Wolffsohn calls for use of
torture | Summoned
before his minister
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Lawyers limber up
In
Iraq Prison Trial, Defense May Rely On Photos of
Abuse | Lawyer
for one guard claims picture shows his client
taking orders from others - will generals take
the stand?
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Expanding the Taguba
report: Israel's
role in training US army in torture
techniques
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Danish government accuses
British troops Danish
medics witnessed Iraqi prisoner die after
interrogation
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Sunday Telegraph
The
mistreatment of prisoners was a fundamental US
interrogation policy | New
Yorker says Rumsfeld OK'd the criminal Prisoner
Interrogation Program
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Reuters
agency released shocking details of US torture
of three of its journalists
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Israel's
involvement in Iraq: has torture experts at Abu
Ghraib Jail
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Loopholes Prison
"contractors" in Iraq may avoid war crimes
charges
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Civilian
contractors: David
Isenberg on Corporate Mercenaries
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Can't think why
US
Defense Secretary bans use of camera-phones in
Iraq
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