Prisoner-abuse report cites poor planning, leadership
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WASHINGTON - With the release Wednesday of an Army report on the role a military intelligence unit played in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, a clearer picture has emerged of the forces that led to abuses.
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The group "Human Rights Watch" has issued a detailed report outlining allegations of torture, abuse and violence against prisoners. Prisoners who have been made to "vanish" by unaccountable agencies.
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WASHINGTON -- A confidential report to Army generals in Iraq in December 2003 warned that members of an elite military and CIA task force were abusing detainees, a finding delivered more than a month before Army investigators received the photographs from Abu Ghraib prison that touched off investigations into prisoner mistreatment.
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U.S. military intelligence soldiers  and civilian contractors working with them were directly  involved in the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib jail to  a greater extent than previously acknowledged, an Army report  released on Wednesday found.
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WASHINGTON - Inattention to prisoner issues by senior U.S. military leaders in Iraq and at the Pentagon was a key factor in the abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib prison, but there is no evidence they ordered any mistreatment, an independent panel concluded...
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A classified assessment found that the facilities have been plagued by many of the shortcomings that existed at military prisons in Iraq, creating what the report described as an "opportunity" for abuse.
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The failures of Army medical staff members to prevent and report torture at Abu Ghraib prison shows the need for more investigation and better training, medical ethicists and the Army itself said.
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An independent panel has succeeded where other authorities have failed in placing blame for the inexcusable mistreatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
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A high-level panel investigating  U.S. military detention operations has concluded that top  Pentagon officials and the military command in Iraq contributed  to an environment in which detainees were abused at Abu Ghraib  prison in Iraq, a defense official said on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON - A second report on responsibility for the Abu Ghraib prison abuses will be released Wednesday by the Army and will focus on the military intelligence unit at the prison outside Baghdad.
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The Army reservist found guilty of being the ringleader of the abuse at Abu Ghraib prison told a jury considering his sentence that he had repeatedly complained about orders to treat detainees harshly.
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Forty-four separate incidents are graphically recounted in the new Army report on abuse committed by U.S. soldiers against Iraqis in their custody at the Abu Ghraib prison.
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WASHINGTON -- An Army inquiry into prisoner abuse in Iraq has found that almost three dozen intelligence personnel at the Abu Ghraib prison either colluded with guards to mistreat detainees, personally abused and tortured inmates, or ignored the abuse, officials said yesterday.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross released a report that called the handling of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, &#39;tantamount to torture&#39; and accused the US of using both psychological and physical coercion on prisoners there.
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Reports that acknowledge the mistreatment of prisoners was more widespread than previously disclosed have served to undercut earlier portrayals of the abuse.
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Army officials say they helped sow the seeds of prison abuse in Iraq, according to an Army report, by lending credence to the idea that aggressive interrogation methods were sanctioned by officers going up the chain of command.
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A treatment center for sex offenders is failing to meet its central purpose: preparing them to return to society.