Thursday, September 25, 2008

Military interrogator testifies about Iraq abuses

Military interrogator testifies about Iraq abuses
By PAMELA HESS Associated Press
Sept. 25, 2008, 12:45PM

WASHINGTON — A military interrogation expert, Air Force Col. Steven Kleinman, told Congress today that prior to the abuses at Abu Ghraib, he witnessed interrogations of Iraqi detainees that he considers violations of the Geneva Conventions.

One of those interrogations was conducted by an Air Force civilian and a contractor employed by the same organization, the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency, which had sent a small team to Iraq in September 2003 to help a special forces task force make its interrogations of stubborn prisoners more effective.
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