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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5194441 U.S. Generals Say They Never Approved Coercive Means Wed May 19, 2004 11:38 AM ET By Alan ElsnerWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three top U.S. generals on Wednesday denied approving coercive interrogation techniques to soften up Iraqi prisoners but acknowledged there may have been confusion at lower levels of the U.S. military. Army Gen. John Abizaid, who is responsible for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, told the Senate Armed Services Committee there were systemic problems at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, where U.S. personnel took photographs of detainees being abused and sexually humiliated that have shocked and angered Americans and fueled anti-American anger overseas. "Abuse has happened in Afghanistan, it's happened in Iraq, it's happened at various places. I think the question before us: is there a systemic abuse problem with regard to interrogation that exists in the Central Command area of operations," Abizaid said. But asked by West Virginia Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd to explain what he called a "culture of abuse" in the prison system, Abizaid denied that any such culture existed. The hearing took place shortly after the first of seven U.S. soldiers accused of abuse pleaded guilty in a U.S. special court-martial in Iraq. The court sentenced Spc. Jeremy Sivits to the maximum one year in prison and ordered him discharged from the army for bad conduct. Sivits had reached a plea agreement under which he will testify against some of the six other soldiers indicted. He also confessed to pushing a prisoner into the now infamous picture of a pile of naked Iraqis. At the hearing, senators focused on an order issued by Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander of ground forces in Iraq, putting the notorious Abu Ghraib prison, previously used as a torture center during former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's rule, under the command of a senior military intelligence officer. Sanchez said that his order was for security purposes to defend the facility against attacks by Iraqi insurgents. It did not place military police at the jail under the control of intelligence officials. HUMANE TREATMENT DEMANDED Sanchez also said he had issued several directives in 2003 and 2004 making it clear prisoners were to be treated in accordance with the Geneva Conventions and requiring that "all interrogations be conducted in a lawful and humane manner, with command oversight." He categorically denied authorizing U.S. jailers to seek approval for techniques including sleep deprivation, stress positions, use of guard dogs, and sensory deprivation to soften up Iraqi prisoners for interrogation. The only written approvals he gave were in 25 cases to hold prisoners in isolation beyond 30 days. "I never approved any of those measures to be used within the CJTF-7 at any time in the last year," Sanchez said. But Abizaid acknowledged there may have been confusion about the relationship between military police and intelligence at the prison. "Our doctrine is not right, it's just not right ... What do the MPs do, what do the military intelligence guys do, how do they come together in the right way? And this doctrinal issue has got to be fixed if we're ever going to get our intelligence right to fight this war and beat this enemy," he said. Abizaid also disclosed that the U.S. military has investigated 75 cases of abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan since late 2002. He promised to follow the trail of evidence wherever it led and hold accountable those who are responsible Committee Chairman John Warner told the hearing the Defense Department has located another disc of images related to abuses of Iraqi detainees. Also testifying was Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, deputy commander for detainee operations in Iraq, who had previously run the U.S. prison and interrogation center at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, where hundreds of suspected enemies of the United States are held without trial in open-ended detention. Miller denied that coercive measures banned by the Geneva Conventions were used at Guantanamo Bay. He described conditions there are "humane detention and interrogation that reflected America's values." The hearing came as the Pentagon was disputing a recent report that the abuse of Iraqi prisoners grew out of a secret plan approved by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to toughen interrogation methods to fight a growing insurgency. 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