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Probe: Prison Abuse Not Ordered Or Caused By Policies
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2005-03-10
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A Pentagon report released on Thursday said that the U.S. military failed to react to early signs of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and missed chances to correct lapses that caused prisoner abuse elsewhere but its own policies and top officials were not directly to blame.
The report by Navy Vice Adm. Albert T. Church said top commanders in Iraq put intense pressure on interrogators to extract useful intelligence information from prisoners, yet that does not explain the sexual humiliation and other abuse of prisoners under U.S. control.
The investigation could find no "single, overarching reason" why prisoners under U.S. control were abused at the Abu Ghraib prison complex in fall 2003 and elsewhere in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The review did note, however, a number of ``missed opportunities'' in the development of interrogation policies.
One of the missed opportunities was a failure to provide commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan with specific and early guidance on interrogation techniques.
The report also noted that the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Army Gen. George Casey, who arrived there last summer, approved on Jan. 27 a new, more restrictive interrogation policy for Iraq.
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