Officers Say U.S. Colonel at Abu Ghraib Prison Felt Intense Pressure
to Get Inmates to Talk
ASHINGTON, May 18 — As he took charge of interrogations at Abu Ghraib
prison last September, Col. Thomas M. Pappas was under enormous
pressure from his superiors to extract more information from
prisoners there, according to senior Army officers.
"He likened it to a root canal without novocaine," a senior officer
who knows Colonel Pappas said of his meetings with his superiors in
Baghdad. Often, the officer said, Colonel Pappas would emerge from
discussions with two of them, Maj. Gen. Barbara Fast and Lt. Gen.
Ricardo S. Sanchez, without a word, but "clutching his face as if in
pain."
Colonel Pappas, commander of the 205th Intelligence Brigade,
relocated his headquarters from Camp Victory, near the Baghdad
airport, to Abu Ghraib just days after a visit to Iraq last fall by
another high-ranking Army officer, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey D. Miller.
General Miller encouraged the Army colonel to have his unit work more
closely with military police to set the conditions for
interrogations.
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Wieder die üblichen Verdächtigen: Guantanamo-Miller & Huachuca-Fast.
to Get Inmates to Talk
ASHINGTON, May 18 — As he took charge of interrogations at Abu Ghraib
prison last September, Col. Thomas M. Pappas was under enormous
pressure from his superiors to extract more information from
prisoners there, according to senior Army officers.
"He likened it to a root canal without novocaine," a senior officer
who knows Colonel Pappas said of his meetings with his superiors in
Baghdad. Often, the officer said, Colonel Pappas would emerge from
discussions with two of them, Maj. Gen. Barbara Fast and Lt. Gen.
Ricardo S. Sanchez, without a word, but "clutching his face as if in
pain."
Colonel Pappas, commander of the 205th Intelligence Brigade,
relocated his headquarters from Camp Victory, near the Baghdad
airport, to Abu Ghraib just days after a visit to Iraq last fall by
another high-ranking Army officer, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey D. Miller.
General Miller encouraged the Army colonel to have his unit work more
closely with military police to set the conditions for
interrogations.
...
http://tinyurl.com/33t7j
Wieder die üblichen Verdächtigen: Guantanamo-Miller & Huachuca-Fast.