Prisoner's death spurs CIA probe

[UpInArms]

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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[TahitiNut]

1. If those people aren't "terrorists" ...

... then the word has no meaning whatsoever. As the Busholinis grant themselves the power under the Patriot Act run roughshod over citizens' human rights and civil liberties and to imprison hundreds of innocent people, they also grant themselves and their private mercenaries immunity to any and all laws. This is as appalling as hell. They have enlisted cannon fodder and fall guys for these appalling abuses and skate free themselves.

[bobthedrummer]

5. The rallying point for US is our Constitution-not PATRIOT ACT

That is US- we, the people.

[bobthedrummer]

7. NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW. NOT EVEN "NATIONAL SECURITY".

[maddezmom]

2. Krazy Kimmitt strikes again with stupid comment

"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.

WTF is this guy smoking??

[AussieInCA]

3. he read that in "military dictator for dummies"

Kimmitt says, "hey, if bushco don't need no stinkin oversight why should I"

[Spentastic]

4. Kermit's

Just hoping that professor Bunsen and Beaker manage to cover this stuff up.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

6. Now investigate the other 10,000-30,000 Iraqi civilian deaths, OK? n/t

[daleo]

8. When torture goes wrong and ends up in death

Is that included in the term collateral damage?