Wednesday, May 05, 2004

Abu Ghraib scandal from the DoD website

This from the military's own DefenseLink News page:

Detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison are being fed, have and wear clothes, and do not sleep on the ground, asserted a coalition military spokesman at a Baghdad press briefing today.

Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, deputy director for operations, Combined Joint Task Force 7, said a reporter had been "obviously been misinformed" at an allegation that Abu Ghraib prisoners are being held without clothes or food and sleep on the ground in tents.

Kimmitt assured that abuse had stopped at the prison. "We continue in the vast majority of cases to be in absolute adherence to the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of security detainees," he said.


Excuse me? In the vast majority of cases? What is the remainder after the "vast majority" anyway, in numbers I mean? And what are the violations of the Geneva Conventions in those remainder of cases? And why can't the Geneva Conventions be followed in all of the cases? Is this an acceptible response to the situation?

(And, as an aside, can't the DoD afford proof readers or editors? "...a reporter had been 'obviously been misinformed' at an allegation...")

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