Connecting the Prison Dots

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http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10656375%5E401,00.html

Prison abuses 'had precedents'

AT LEAST five US officials given the job of organising Iraq's prison system following the war have been linked to abuses of inmates at jails in the US, German NDR public television said today.

In an advance extract of its Panorama program, the station said that the US Justice Department had sent the men to Iraq knowing they were suspected of links to abuses.

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The program said General Janis Karpinski, formerly in charge of prisons in Iraq, had told it that the living conditions at Abu Ghraib were untenable.

"But McCotter found them acceptable," she said in a German translation of her remarks, even if "they smelled of urine, trash and muck."
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that Panorama program must have been very interesting. wish I knew German.

[G_j]

1. another important piece of the larger picture

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