Iraq prison report details lax discipline

[JoFerret]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040508/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_bumbling_battalion&cid=540&ncid=1480

ABU GHRAIB, Iraq - A U.S. Army investigation into abuses at Abu Ghraib prison depicts the military police running the penitentiary as a motley lot, overwhelmed by one of the worst assignments in Iraq and bitter about the military's broken promises of going home.

When Pentagon investigators arrived at the prison west of Baghdad, they found fatalistic Army Reservists toting weapons while wearing civilian clothes. Also, command authority had been replaced by old friendships, said a report written by Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba.

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Taguba's report, which relates the abuses of Iraqi inmates at the sprawling prison, also describes numerous breakdowns within the 800th Military Police Brigade, especially its 320th Battalion, the unit running the prison.

The report blasts Karpinski ....

The report details myriad shortcomings of a unit given enormous responsibility.

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[saigon68]

1. THIS IS ROVE SPIN

THEY ARE PINNING IT ON THE 7 AND KARPINSKI

THEY ARE TAKING THE REPORT OUT OF CONTEXT