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SIERRA VISTA - Stung by the Iraq prison scandal, the Army's interrogation school at Fort Huachuca opened its doors Wednesday in a bid to show the world that nothing is amiss in its training methods. The school's techniques have come under a microscope amid revelations that Army interrogators were involved in prisoner abuse that has sparked international outrage. Major Gen. James A. Marks, Fort Huachuca's commander, said the Army has nothing to hide about the way its interrogators are trained. "We draw a very clear line for people," about what is and is not acceptable prisoner treatment,...

WASHINGTON - The CIA (news - web sites) did not have a trained corps of interrogators until the war on terror began and turned in part to contractors to handle the surge of detainees, including in Iraq (news - web sites). Some of those sent in are now under investigation in prisoner deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan (news - web sites). Officials are considering one case as a homicide and have referred it to the Justice Department (news - web sites). In interviews, intelligence veterans who spent decades with the CIA said interrogators are needed mostly during conflicts when a...

Tareq Aziz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iraq's former deputy prime minister, Tareq Aziz, has told U.S. interrogators that Saddam Hussein survived two air strikes launched to kill the ousted Iraqi president, USA Today reported on Monday. But the newspaper also quoted a senior defense official as saying that interrogators had concluded that Aziz was lying about other matters that had come up in questioning. Aziz, who is being questioned at an undisclosed location, said he saw Saddam alive after the March 19 and April 7 air strikes on Baghdad targeting the former Iraqi leaders and his two sons, USA Today...