Army, in Manual, Limiting Tactics in Interrogation

[Roland99]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/28/politics/28abuse.html?ei=5090&en=98ab0681c00f9468&ex=1272340800&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print&position=

WASHINGTON, April 27 - The Army is preparing to issue a new interrogations manual that expressly bars the harsh techniques disclosed in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, and incorporates safeguards devised to prevent such misconduct at military prison camps in the future, Army officials said Wednesday.

The new manual, the first revision in 13 years, will specifically prohibit practices like stripping prisoners, keeping them in stressful positions for a long time, imposing dietary restrictions, employing police dogs to intimidate prisoners and using sleep deprivation as a tool to get them to talk, the officials said.

Those practices were not included in the manual in use when the bulk of the abuses occurred at Abu Ghraib in Iraq in the fall of 2003, but neither were they specifically banned.

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Accompanying the new manual, which runs more than 200 pages, will be a separate classified training document that will provides dozens of interrogation scenarios and go into exacting detail on what procedures may or may not be used, and in what circumstances.

[bemildred]

1. Let's hope it prohibits rape and murder too. nt

[Roland99]

2. Come on now. Baby steps.

[liveoaktx]

3. Prohibiting now while whitewashing Rumsfeld and Sanchez

If it's wrong now and requires a rewrite, it's wrong not to prosecute those two criminals.