"They stressed him out so bad that the man passed away," Frederick wrote...

Prisoner Abuse Probe Widened

<snip>Frederick also wrote that he questioned some of the abuses. "I questioned this and the answer I got was: This is how military intelligence wants it done," he wrote.


The Army Reserve commander who oversaw the prison said that military intelligence, rather than the military police, dictated the treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. "The prison, and that particular cellblock where the events took place, were under the control of the MI command," Brig. Gen. Janis L. Karpinski said in a telephone interview Saturday night from her home in Hilton Head, S.C.


Karpinski, who commanded the 800th Military Police Brigade, also described a high-pressure atmosphere that prized successful interrogations. A month before the alleged abuses occurred, she said, a team of military intelligence officers from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, came to Abu Ghraib last year. "Their main and specific mission was to get the interrogators -- give them new techniques to get more information from detainees," she said. snip

In one letter, Frederick alleged that an inmate's death in November was covered up. "They stressed him out so bad that the man passed away," Frederick wrote. His body was placed in a black bag, Frederick wrote, and packed in ice for about 24 hours in a shower stall. Frederick alleged that the death was never documented.

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