Thursday, May 13, 2004

The New York Times > Washington > Prison Policies: General Took Guantanamo Rules to Iraq for Handling of Prisoners:
"At the Senate hearing on Tuesday, the deputy commander of American forces in the Middle East, Lt. Gen. Lance Smith, said General Miller, now the chief of interrogations and detentions in Iraq, had made it clear to the officers he briefed on his 10-day visit to Iraq that some of the procedures developed in Cuba could not be applied there.

But despite the vast differences between the settings, two officials who worked with General Miller in Cuba suggested that he offered very similar solutions to some problems he found in Iraq.

Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba, in his report on Iraqi prison abuses, said General Miller's recommendation of a guard force that 'sets the conditions for the successful interrogation and exploitation of internees/detainees' violated Army doctrine; the report hinted that it might also have contributed to the abuses.

The Taguba report also highlighted General Miller's recommendation that commanders in Iraq form and train a prison guard force 'subordinate to the Joint Interrogation Debriefing Center (J.I.D.C.) Commander' that 'sets the conditions for the successful interrogation and exploitation of internees/detainees.' "

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/13/politics/13MILL.html?pagewanted=all&position=

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