Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 02:15:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: David P. Dillard <jwne@temple.edu>
Reply-To: NetGold@yahoogroups.com
To: NetGold <NetGold@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [NetGold] COUNTRIES: IRAQ : PRISONERS: ABUSE : BREAKING NEWS:
Report: Rumsfeld OK'd Prisoner Program
COUNTRIES: IRAQ : PRISONERS: ABUSE : BREAKING NEWS: Report: Rumsfeld OK'd
Prisoner Program
Saturday, May 15, 2004 Last updated 8:04 p.m. PT
Report: Rumsfeld OK'd Prisoner Program
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Seattle Post Intelligencer
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?
category=1152&slug=US%20Prison%20Abuse%20Rumsfeld>
A shorter URL for the link above:
NEW YORK -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the expansion of
a secret program that encouraged physical coercion and sexual humiliation
of Iraqi prisoners to obtain intelligence about the growing insurgency in
Iraq, The New Yorker reported Saturday.
The Defense Department strongly denied the claims made in the report,
which cited unnamed current and former intelligence officials and was
published on the magazine's Web site. Pentagon spokesman Lawrence Di Rita
issued a statement calling the claims "outlandish, conspiratorial, and
filled with error and anonymous conjecture."
The story, written by reporter Seymour Hersh, said Rumsfeld decided to
expand the program last year, broadening a Pentagon operation from the
hunt for al-Qaida in Afghanistan to interrogation of prisoners at Abu
Ghraib prison in Baghdad.
Seven soldiers are facing military charges related to the abuse and
humiliation of prisoners captured by the now-infamous photographs at the
prison. Some of the soldiers and their lawyers have said military
intelligence officials told military police assigned as guards to abuse
the prisoners to make interrogations easier.
According to the story, which hits newsstands Monday, the initial
operation Rumsfeld authorized gave blanket approval to kill or capture and
interrogate "high value" targets in the war on terrorism. The program
stemmed from frustrating efforts to capture high-level terrorists in the
weeks after the start of U.S. bombings in Afghanistan.
The program got approval from President Bush's national security adviser,
Condoleezza Rice, and Bush was informed of its existence, the officials
told Hersh.
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