Top US general approved pressure tactics on Iraqi prisoners: report

[DaveSZ]

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2004/June/focusoniraq_June104.xml§ion=focusoniraq


Top US general approved pressure tactics on Iraqi prisoners: report
(AFP)

12 June 2004



WASHINGTON - The top US military commander in Iraq approved high-pressure tactics used on inmates at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison, the Washington Post reported on Saturday.


US Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez approved letting senior officials at Abu Ghraib “use military dogs, temperature extremes, reversed sleep patterns, sensory deprivation, and diets of bread and water on detainees whenever they wished,” according to the Post, citing US government documents.

Sanchez borrowed heavily from a list of interrogation tactics used at the detention center at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to the Post.

In early September 2003 Sanchez authorized prison officials to use the pressure tactics without having to seek authorization from higher-ranking officials outside the prison.

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[Catfight]

1. The evolution of Bush, what century is he in?

[TahitiNut]

4. Fifteenth or Sixteenth

Inquisition days. Empiricism yields to recapitulationist Imperialism.

[agingdem]

6. The only thing missing is the...

auto do fe. Torquemada would be proud!

[TahitiNut]

7. After the Immolation Quartet of Fallujah, I expect nothing less.

:shrug:

[papau]

8. Bush in the iron maiden - sigh - make evil conservative thoughts go away..

:-(

[bobthedrummer]

2. It goes right to the top.

Myers, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Bush.

[steely]

5. Only one Commander in Chief.

If * wants the title - like when he cried about being the one true and only CINC, and then underscored it with directives (ref http://www.hnn.navy.mil/archives/021101/cinc_110102.htm for example), then he should have also accepted the respsonsibility, because he has it. He's a skater who's phoning it in.

You're so right, it does go to the top.

[zanana]

3. Pressure tactics?

OK, folks, it's all over. So no more discussions about "torture". Americans did not "torture" anybody. They simply applied "pressure tactics".

[Moderator]

9. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x617768