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 From: pickens486@nyc.rr.com 
  
 _ G O D _ wrote: 
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 > Pentagon was warned about detainees' abuse 
 > 
 > WASHINGTON 
 > 
 > Months before Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld publicly 
 > acknowledged the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American 
 > soldiers, top U.S. officials and several international human 
 > rights organizations repeatedly warned the Defense 
 > Department to halt the mistreatment of detainees. 
 > From U.S. Administrator L. Paul Bremer and Secretary 
 > of State Colin Powell to investigators for the International 
 > Committee of the Red Cross, a broad array of officials 
 > pressed the Pentagon to improve conditions or face a 
 > likely Iraqi backlash, officials from the government and 
 > the organizations said Friday. 
 > 
 > Amnesty International sounded an alarm at a Baghdad 
 > news conference in May 2003, only one month after the 
 > Iraqi capital fell to U.S.-led troops. Three months later, 
 > Bremer pressed the military to improve conditions and 
 > later made the issue a regular talking point in discussions 
 > with Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney and National 
 > Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, said U.S. officials familiar 
 > with the discussions, speaking on the condition of anonymity. 
 > 
 > The Red Cross delivered repeated warnings during the 
 > same period, its president said Friday. The organization 
 > dispatched investigators to 14 detention centers in Iraq 
 > and delivered reports about U.S. mistreatment, including 
 > evidence of humiliation, physical abuse and excessive use 
 > of force. 
 > 
 > Rumsfeld, at the epicenter of the crisis, defended his record 
 > Friday under six hours of sharp congressional questioning. 
 > He said he saw photographs of mistreatment at Abu Ghraib 
 > prison only on Thursday but asserted that his department had 
 > taken appropriate steps to improve conditions and oversight of the jails. 
  
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