Posted on 07/03/2004 3:01:24 PM PDT by Beckwith
LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. general who was in charge of Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib prison said on Saturday she had met an Israeli interrogator in Iraq, a claim Israel denied but which was likely to irritate many in the Arab world.
Brigadier-General Janis Karpinski, who was responsible for military police guarding all Iraqi jails at the time prisoners were abused by U.S. troops there, told the BBC she met the Israeli at a Baghdad interrogation center.
"He was clearly from the Middle East and he said: 'Well, I do some of the interrogation here and of course I speak Arabic, but I'm not an Arab. I'm from Israel'," she said.
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I won't defend her statements, but men too disappoint us!
As a Navy Captain do you find it curious that a Brig Gen can have a person working on her turf and be unable to identify him?
BBC and Reuters accomplished their task.
But when they do they can fall on their sword.
Good point. You just don't walk in off the street and putter around in a place like that. Sounds like we're getting more whine than cheese from Karpinski.
Claudia wanted all of the Army to COO.....Consideration Of Others. I'd love to see a reporter take a tack with her in an interview where Claudia is taken to task for not having given enough COO training to the seven knuckleheads at that prison. I'd say she's more directly responsive for their behavior than Bush (which is a line of BS she's been spouting on TV).
Rumsfeld Gave Go-Ahead For Abu Ghraib Tactics, Says General In Charge (Janis Karpinski)
How long before she blames Bush?
One general that needs to learn the meaning of BEHEADING first hand.
Is there an islamic jihadist in the house?
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