Witness to Abuse Trying to Be Heard
Interrogators Responsible, Ex-Soldier Says
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A17135-2004Aug19?language=printerBy Elizabeth Williamson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, August 20, 2004; Page A12
He's gone to Army superiors, three members of Congress and two reporters with his story. No one from military intelligence has been charged -- just the seven from the 372nd.
"It seems they want to sacrifice seven soldiers for the sins of everyone," he said. "Whoever led them down that path is a culprit as well."
Eating lunch in a favorite shopping mall restaurant one recent afternoon, Davis remembered the prisoners and tried not to cry. The naked ones, crawling, an Army boot pushing them to the floor. The one who died in a riot at Camp Ganci, a tent compound in the Abu Ghraib complex, shot with live ammunition because the rubber bullets had run out. And the dead stare of another detainee, the back of his head sheared off by a roadside bomb meant for Davis's convoy. "It's not what I went over there for," he said.
Davis said that when he asked about the tactics, a military intelligence officer told him, "We know what we are doing."
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