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...influential. But there can't be many who would hope to affect events the way Newsweek has in Afghanistan. The anti-American street protests that erupted there earlier this month--after the magazine reported that a Pentagon investigation would support claims that guards at the U.S. detention center at Guant??namo Bay flushed a copy of the Koran down a toilet--left as many as 17 dead and scores injured...
...months starting in December 2002, Army Sergeant Erik Saar served as an Arabic translator and a military intelligence specialist at the detention facility for suspected terrorists that the U.S. operates at its naval base at Guant??namo Bay, Cuba. He recounts his experiences in a new book, Inside the Wire, co-written by TIME correspondent Viveca Novak. In the following excerpt, Saar, now retired from the Army, deals with the issue of suicide attempts among the detainees and the military's use of the Initial Reaction Force (IRF). An IRF team, Saar explains, is a five-person unit responsible...
...neocon ideologue like Wolfowitz and has cultivated warmer relations with Congress. In 2002 he helped save billions of dollars by combining the Navy and Marine Corps aviation programs, and he has been given politically sensitive duties, notably overseeing the Pentagon's review of detainee cases at Guant??namo Bay. Rumsfeld is counting on England's skills to help reform hiring and firing rules for the Pentagon's 700,000-strong civilian work force; implement the closing or realigning of bases around the U.S.; and supervise the Quadrennial Defense Review, which will decide what weapons get funded or axed during...
...common such practices were at Guant??namo, a prison with a reputation for being more tightly run than those in the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan, may be partly answered in the reports of two formal Pentagon investigations that are expected next month. One is a review of U.S. detention and interrogation practices worldwide that is being conducted by Vice Admiral Albert Church. A separate report, on allegations of abuse at Guant??namo made by FBI agents present there, is being prepared by the Southern Command...
Erik Saar and Viveca Novak's book about Guant??namo, Inside the Wire, will be published by Penguin Press...