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Abu Ghraib Report Faults Top Officials WASHINGTON - The Pentagon's most senior civilian and military officials share a portion of blame for creating conditions that led to the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq, according to a new report. The report, by a commission appointed by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, was presented to Rumsfeld Tuesday in advance of a Pentagon news conference to release the details. The commission was headed by James Schlesinger, a former secretary of defense. A person familiar with the report said it implicitly faulted Rumsfeld and Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top Pentagonofficials and the military command in Iraq contributed to an environment in which prisoners were abused at Abu Ghraib prison, a high-level panel investigating the military detentions has concluded, a defense official said on Tuesday. The independent four-member panel headed by former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger found that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the Joint Chiefs of Staff failed to exercise proper oversight over confusing detention policies at U.S. prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to the defense official. The official, who asked not...

Prisoner Abuse Suspect Faces German Court 06:25 AM EST - August 23, 2004 The Associated Press MANNHEIM, Germany A key suspect in the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison voiced fear he was being made a scapegoat when he was asked to turn over a laptop computer and other evidence suspected of containing photos of the maltreatment, an investigator told a U.S. military court Monday.The investigator, Manora Iem, testified that Spc. Charles Graner consented to the search during a Jan. 14 interview at the prison, but lawyers for Graner questioned the agent's authorization because he said he only...

<p>"On March 19, 2004, President Bush asked, 'Who would prefer that Saddam's torture chambers still be open?' Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management - U.S. management."</p> <p>Unfortunately, because such slanderous nonsense was uttered by a senator with the magic "Kennedy" name, it's impossible to ignore - even if it comes straight from Michael Moore's playbook.</p>

Can anyone please explain to me how the headline of this article, obviously only what most ignorant Americans will read, reconciles with the last two lines (my red)?   Am I missing something or is this not absolutely amazing?  It's one thing to mislead in an article assuming readers won't question the source, but it's an absolute insult (or validation of) their readers' ignorance to have a headline that is directly contradicted two paragraphs later.   Stewart   Abu Ghraib Probe Points to Top BrassBy Josh White and Thomas E. RicksWashington Post Staff WritersFriday, August 20, 2004; Page A01 An...

A U.S Army investigation into abuses of Iraqi inmates at Abu Ghraib prison is expected to place blame on low-level soldiers, while generally clearing senior commanders of involvement. Seven U.S. soldiers are already facing charges of abuse in connection with a scandal that shocked the world. The results of the Army investigation are expected to be released in the coming days. Barring any last minute changes, U.S. military officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, say it will place most blame for the abuses at Abu Ghraib on reservist guards and those who ran the prison. They say the investigation found...

Intelligence soldiers and civilian contractors at Abu Ghraib are implicated, but military brass outside the prison are not, officials say. WASHINGTON — A long-awaited report on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal will implicate about two dozen military intelligence soldiers and civilian contractors in the intimidation and sexual humiliation of Iraq war prisoners, but will not suggest wrongdoing by military brass outside the prison, senior Defense officials said Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Two dozen people will be blamed by an Army investigation into the abuse of inmates at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, says a senior defense official. The official, who spoke Wednesday on condition of anonymity, provided no details of the report. Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, would say only that the report was nearing completion.However, The New York Times reported the inquiry found no evidence of direct blame above the rank of the colonel who commanded the military intelligence unit at the prison.Photos of the prisoner abuse, which included beatings and sexual humiliation, created a worldwide scandal when...

...When the news of those pictures became public in April, Pfc. England had an explanation: She had been following orders from higher-ups.... Who the higher-ups were who had approved the group's treatment of prisoners she could not say. This was a decidedly different explanation from the one she initially gave, according to the Army investigator who first confronted her with the photographs. Months before those were made public, investigator Paul Arthur testified at the recent Article 32 hearing, Pfc. England had told him that the photos [was] just some fooling around while on the night shift. There was no mention...

BRIGADIER-GENERAL JANIS KARPINSKI says she will never forget the day she first set foot in Abu Ghraib, the infamous Iraqi prison which housed torture chambers under Saddam Hussein. “You could smell death. When I was taken to the hanging chamber, I said ‘I can’t stay here, I can hear the voices, I can hear the screams’. I could feel myself going pale. It was filthy: some of the ropes they used to hang these guys were still there.” I am driving with Karpinski through Rahway, New Jersey, where she grew up. It is a serene middle-class town of wide streets...

A long-awaited report on the abuse of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison will recommend that more than two dozen soldiers be disciplined, but no one above the colonel who commanded them. The army report, expected to be released by the end of the month, contends that responsibility for the abuse goes beyond the seven soldiers from a Maryland-based military police unit, who have been the only ones facing charges in the scandal, Pentagon officials said. They said the report also alleges even more troubling instances of abuse than have been portrayed in the media and in the testimony of...

Punitive action possible following Pentagon investigation NBC News has learned a military investigation into prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison now implicates military intelligence officers in addition to military police already charged. Pentagon sources tell NBC News the investigation by Maj. Gen. George Fay recommends punitive action, which could include criminal charges against several military intelligence officers who were at least aware of the abuse. At a pre-trial hearing for Pfc. Lynndie England last week there was direct testimony by a military intelligence officer that three intelligence officers were present during the abuse of three prisoners at Abu Ghraib. The...

Secret bunkers held chemical weapons, says Iraqi exile April 1, 2004 Print this article Email to a friend A scientist describes Saddam's weapons and stealth technology programs, reports Russell Skelton. For seven years, before he was tortured and sentenced to death, Rashid (not his real name) worked at the top of Iraq's scientific establishment. He says he regularly met Saddam Hussein and his cousin and strongman deputy prime minister Abdul Tawab Huweish. After the Gulf War he was put in charge of a taskforce code named "Al Babel" to develop stealth technology to make aircraft and missiles undetectable on radar....

FORT BRAGG, N.C., Aug 7 (Reuters) - A U.S. military court on Saturday temporarily halted a hearing to decide if Pfc. Lynndie England, the soldier photographed holding a naked Iraqi prisoner on a leash, should stand trial for abusing inmates at Abu Ghraib prison. Lawyers for England asked hearing officer Col. Denise Arn for permission to call more than 50 additional witnesses, including some top U.S. government and military officials, after the court heard 25 witnesses over the first four days. England was charged with 19 counts of prisoner abuse, committing indecent acts and disobeying orders in a scandal that...

Accused soldier's lawyer wants generals to testify FORT BRAGG, North Carolina (CNN) -- The young military policeman who blew the whistle on Abu Ghraib testified Friday he waited a month to turn over incriminating photos to investigators because it was "a hard call" to send his own friends to prison. Sgt. Joseph Darby said he finally acted because he was shocked by the photos and worried that the abuse was about to resume. "It violated everything I personally believed in and everything I had been taught about war. It was more of a moral call than anything," Darby testified. Darby's...

Let's talk war crimes, shall we? Lynndie England went to her hearing, to face the music over acts she committed while in uniform. I'd think we all agree that while her actions certainly do belong on TV during the Superbowl Halftime, they do NOT belong on TV during the News Hour - unless it was a News segment about Superbowl Halftime. She is charged with abusing prisoners by denying them the chance to pay $50.00 an hours for her actions, like all other decent citizens would have to do. As a result, she may do jail time... "On the first...

ORT BRAGG, N.C., Aug. 3 - She is the last but best known of seven accused soldiers to enter a military courtroom on charges of prisoner abuse that have disgraced the armed services. Pfc. Lynndie R. England, the grinning face of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, appeared on Tuesday before a military judge who will determine whether she should face a court-martial on 19 charges of assault, misconduct, and posing for what the military termed "numerous wrongful photographs," including the now infamous one of her holding a naked prisoner on a leash. Private England, 21 and six months pregnant, sat...

LONDON -- The general who headed the U.S. military prison at Abu Ghraib said in an interview broadcast Tuesday that there had been a conspiracy to prevent her knowing about prisoner abuse at the jail. Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, who was suspended by the Pentagon in May, has denied knowing about any mistreatment prisoners until photographs surfaced at the end of April. U.S. investigators have not implicated Karpinski directly in any of the abuses.

The hearing of US Army Private Lynndie England, accused of abusing Iraqi detainees, began here Tuesday with the pregnant young soldier facing a possible court-martial and a maximum sentence of 38 years in a military jail. England, 21, arrived at the hearing at Fort Bragg wearing camouflage military dress, flanked by her legal team and her mother, Terrie. She was escorted into the proceeding by several military policemen amid tight security. "The total maximum punishment that PFC (Private First Class) England potentially could receive if she is convicted of all charges and specifications is a dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all...