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FORT HUACHUCA - After spending nearly a half-century as a counterintelligence soldier and civilian, C.R. "Mac" McCormick cannot find enough words to describe his disgust of photos reportedly showing U.S. soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners. "It's just plain horrible. It's idiotic. It's people doing stupid things. It's embarrassing. It's demeaning. It's not what American soldiers are trained to do," McCormick said Monday. What concerns the Sierra Vista area resident is the photos will become recruiting posters by al-Qaida and other terrorists groups to incite Muslims to join their organizations to continue the war against the United States. A few soldiers have...

U.S. Takes 260 Prisoners in Iraq Raid By DAVID RISING, Associated Press Writer AD-DAWR, Iraq - Heavily armed U.S. Army forces stormed into a village near the northern city of Tikrit before dawn Thursday, seizing more than 260 prisoners, including one man on the United States' most-wanted list of former Iraqi officials. U.S. troops encountered no resistance during the five-hour sweep, officers said. About 230 of those detained were being released later in the day, the military said. Elsewhere, soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division shot and wounded a looter in Mosul after being fired upon, U.S. military officials said....

The White House 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, D.C. February 19, 2002 To: Democrat Leadership Thank you for your recent communication roundly criticizing our treatment of the Taliban and El Qaeda detainees currently being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. My administration takes these matters seriously, and your opinion was heard loud and clear here in Washington. You'll be pleased to learn that, thanks to the concerns of citizens like you, we are creating a new division of the Terrorist Retraining Program, "Liberals Accept Responsibility for Killers" program, or LARK for short. In accordance with the guidelines of this new program, we...