Afghan Policies on Questioning Prisoners Taken to Iraq

ASHINGTON, May 20 — The interrogation center at Abu Ghraib prison was run by a military intelligence unit that had served in Afghanistan and that had taken to Iraq the aggressive rules and procedures it had developed for the Afghan conflict, according to documents and testimony.

Some members of the unit, part of the 519th Military Intelligence Battalion, from Fort Bragg, N.C., have already been quietly punished in connection with the abuse of an Iraqi woman at the prison, according to documents recently released by the Army.

In August 2003, the officer in charge of the unit, Capt. Carolyn A. Wood, an experienced Army interrogator, posted her own list of "interrogation rules of engagement," which were inconsistent with those later issued for Iraq by the top American commander, Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, according to Congressional officials.

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A report by The Denver Post in April — based on Army records and published in April, before the broader Abu Ghraib scandal became known — disclosed that three soldiers from the 519th Battalion had been fined and demoted in a closed proceeding stemming from the abuse of an Iraqi woman at Abu Ghraib. It is not clear whether those soldiers reported to Captain Wood.

The records obtained by The Post were heavily edited by the military to delete the names of the soldiers involved and other details of the incident. Spokesmen for the XVIII Airborne Corps did not respond to repeated inquiries for more information about the incidents.

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more: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/21/politics/21ABUS.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5062&en=7bfb6ae6a6962a9e&partner=GOOGLE&ex=1085716800

Barbara Fast, Jordan and Pappas are also sited in this article.....

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