Word: taguba
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Could the abuse of prisoners in Iraq have gone beyond the beatings and sexual humiliation already alleged? Unreleased, classified parts of the report on prison abuse from Major General Anthony Taguba, which were read to TIME, contain indications of mistreatment of female prisoners. In a Feb. 21 statement to Taguba, Lieut. Colonel Steven L. Jordan, former head of the Abu Ghraib interrogation center, said he had received reports "that there were members of the MI [military intelligence] community that had come over and done a late-night interrogation of two female detainees" last October. According to a statement by Jordan...
...would like to congratulate Philippine-American Major General Antonio Taguba for his report to the Senate Armed Services Committee on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. For Taguba to issue the well-documented exposé of the abuses and torture-which implicated both the American military and its political leadership-took the kind of courage required for service on a war's front lines. This is democracy in action. Politicians may be divided on the Bush Administration's handling of the Iraq war, but Taguba deserves unanimous praise. For him, it was an act of conscience. Joel R. Hinlo Brigadier General...
Another big stack of pages is causing concern over at the Senate Armed Services Committee, which is investigating abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. Committee aides discovered belatedly that their copy of the 6,000-page report on prison abuses produced by Major General Antonio M. Taguba might not be complete. The copy they got after Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's testimony on May 7 was a thick document with 106 annexes, and it was quickly arranged into separate binders. Only later did the committee stack up all the pages, compare them with a ream of 6,000 blank...
...Janis Karpinski, who paid too little attention to her rogue company. "My assessment," said Lieut. General Keith Alexander, the Army's deputy chief of staff for intelligence, "is there was a complete breakdown of discipline on the MP side." He was seconded on that point by Major General Antonio Taguba, author of the scathing Army inquiry, who bluntly defined the problem as a "failure of leadership; lack of discipline; no training whatsoever; and no supervision...
COVER: Photomontage by Arthur Hochstein BUSH, BROOKS KRAFT; WITMER SISTERS, MICHAEL SEARS-POOL--GETTY IMAGES; MYERS, JASON REED--REUTERS; IRAQI WOMAN, KHAMPHA BOUAPHANH--ABACA PRESS; BREMER, ROBERTO SCHMIDT--AFP/GETTY IMAGES; PRISONER, AP; SOLDIER, AKRAM SALEH--REUTERS; TAGUBA, ALEX WONG--GETTY IMAGES; HUMVEE, ALI ABBAS--EPA; BERG, AP; ENGLAND, AP; RUMSFELD, JIM MACMILLAN...