Testimony: Visiting General Urged Dogs' Use

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Testimony: Visiting General Urged Dogs' Use


Thursday May 25, 2006 10:31 PM

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By DAVID DISHNEAU

Associated Press Writer

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) - A general visiting Abu Ghraib prison urged guards and
interrogators to use dogs "as much as possible" with detainees, a former
supervisor testified Thursday.

The statement by Lt. Col. Jerry Phillabaum, a military police reservist who ran
the Iraq prison in summer 2003, differed from Maj. Gen. Geoffrey D. Miller's
testimony a day earlier that he encouraged the use of dogs only for custody and
control of detainees.

Both men testified at the court-martial of Sgt. Santos A. Cardona, an Army dog
handler and military policeman accused of having his Belgian shepherd bite one
detainee and harass another at Abu Ghraib in late 2003 and early 2004.

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Phillabaum said Miller, then commander of the U.S. detention center for suspected
terrorists in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, mentioned dogs during a meeting with Abu Ghraib
supervisors in early September 2003.

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Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5845952,00.html

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1. Miller is guilt and he knows it, but he's protecting Rummy and Dimson