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shamrock_uk · 03-30-2005, 02:43 PM

Ah well, no surprises here. The BBC story seems to have completely vanished, but made it more clear that this General had directly signed the approval of methods like using (muzzled) dogs to "exploit the Arab fear of dogs".

However, he did argue that advanced approval and confirmation was needed from him each time for these methods to be deployed in the field, and he was never asked.

It's mildly amusing that the figure of 1 in 10 prisoners actually being genuine arrived at in the report is almost exactly the same as the Red Cross estimate a year or so ago which got them publicly attacked by senior US army figures. Looks like they weren't so far off after all.

But yeah, even if his defence of not having actually authorised individual abuses stands, it still illustrates quite frankly the 'climate' that exists with regards to treatment of detainees - clearly this is a problem throughout every level of the military which makes scapegoating troopers somehow more annoying.

03-30-2005, 02:43 PM	#2
shamrock_uk Dracolich Join Date: January 24, 2004 Location: UK Age: 42 Posts: 3,092	Ah well, no surprises here. The BBC story seems to have completely vanished, but made it more clear that this General had directly signed the approval of methods like using (muzzled) dogs to "exploit the Arab fear of dogs". However, he did argue that advanced approval and confirmation was needed from him each time for these methods to be deployed in the field, and he was never asked. It's mildly amusing that the figure of 1 in 10 prisoners actually being genuine arrived at in the report is almost exactly the same as the Red Cross estimate a year or so ago which got them publicly attacked by senior US army figures. Looks like they weren't so far off after all. But yeah, even if his defence of not having actually authorised individual abuses stands, it still illustrates quite frankly the 'climate' that exists with regards to treatment of detainees - clearly this is a problem throughout every level of the military which makes scapegoating troopers somehow more annoying.