General who probed Abu Ghraib says Bush officials committed war crimes
last updated: June 18, 2008 08:34:09 PM
WASHINGTON — The Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison accused the Bush administration Wednesday of committing "war crimes" and called for those responsible to be held to account.
The remarks by Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, who's now retired, came in a new report that found that U.S. personnel tortured and abused detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, using beatings, electrical shocks, sexual humiliation and other cruel practices.
"After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes," Taguba wrote. "The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account."
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June 19, 2008 12:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Damn. He just left Europe. It's too late for them to arrest him on the basis of this accusation and turn him over to the Hague.
June 19, 2008 2:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Taguba is a true American hero.
Is there a position for him in an Obama Administratio? Perhaps the investigation of war crimes should be led by retired military officers, to help avoid any misperception of partisanship?
June 19, 2008 11:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Taguba's views on detainee abuse may have been influenced by the fact that his father survived the Bataan Death March and imprisonment by the Japanese.
June 20, 2008 12:05 AM | Reply | Permalink