The military's mission at Abu Ghraib was inadequately planned almost
from conception. It was subordinated to political and intelligence
goals and bogged down at every level by inadequate resources and
hostile conditions, according to classified documents reviewed and now
posted by the Center for Public Integrity. The documents, the first
installment of background materials from Army Major General Anthony
Taguba's investigation into abuses of military detainees in Iraq, were
provided to the Center by Rolling Stone contributor Osha Gray Davidson.
The Center plans to post the second installment of the documents later
this month. Including high-level policy memos, special investigations
and witness testimony, the documents describe attacks, prisoner riots,
interrogation methods and the torture and deaths of detainees. They
reveal that the torture and abuse of inmates at the prison by military
police, exposed in April 2004 news accounts of the classified report,
took place under the guidance of military intelligence with little
direct supervision from overburdened senior officers. Currently, the
U.S. government has detained thousands of individuals in Afghanistan,
Iraq and other countries suspected of ties to terrorism. [more ]
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