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US officer granted latitude at Iraqi prison -report WASHINGTON, June 12 (Reuters) The top U.S. military officer in Iraq approved letting officials at a Baghdad jail subject detainees to temperature extremes, reversed sleep patterns and diets of bread and water whenever they wished, the Washington Post reported on Saturday.Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez borrowed heavily from a list of high-pressure tactics used at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, when he granted wide latitude to officers overseeing detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison, the Post reported citing newly obtained documents. The documents spell out in greater detail than previously known the interrogation tactics Sanchez authorized in early September 2003, and make clear for the first time that, before last October, these tactics could be imposed without seeking the approval of anyone outside the prison.Unnamed officials at the Florida headquarters of the U.S. Central Command, which has overall military responsibility for Iraq, objected to some of the 32 interrogation tactics Sanchez had approved. As a result, Sanchez removed several items on the list in October and required that prison officials obtain his direct approval for the remaining high pressure methods, the Post reported. |
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