Prisoner's death spurs CIA probe [View All]

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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/04/1083635129629.html

The CIA is investigating the case of an Iraqi prisoner who died in Abu Ghraib jail while being interrogated by CIA agents last November.

As the scandal over abuses at the jail widened, a CIA official - who declined to be named - confirmed that a prisoner had died during questioning.

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General Taguba saved his harshest criticism for two officers and two private contractors. These were the commander of the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade who had control of the overall detention facility, Colonel Thomas Pappas, Lieutenant- Colonel Steven Jordan, who directed the Joint Interrogation and Debriefing Centre inside the prison, and two employees of US-based security firm CACI International, Stephen Stephanowicz and John Israel. These four men, General Taguba wrote, "were either directly or indirectly responsible for the abuses at Abu Ghraib". He recommended "immediate disciplinary action" against the four.

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The Pentagon and the Bush Administration are resisting calls for an independent inquiry into its detention and interrogation practices in Iraq and Afghanistan, saying a high-level military review was already under way. "I think, at this point, there's no reason to suspect that the army's not capable of inspecting itself," Brigadier-General Mark Kimmitt said from Baghdad yesterday.

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