Las Cloacas del Pentágono

El País

Las torturas a presos iraquíes en la cárcel de Abu Ghraib no son casos aislados y espontáneos como defiende el Gobierno de Estados Unidos, sino que forman parte de un plan «altamente secreto» elaborado por el Pentágono y que fue aprobado en agosto del año pasado por el secretario de Estado de Defensa, Donald Rumsfeld, según afirma la revista The New Yorker en un reportaje que publicará el lunes y que el semanario adelanta hoy en su página web. El Pentágono niega la noticia en un comunicado, en el que califica las acusaciones de «extrañas y conspirativas».

Artículo de la revista New Yorker. Fragmento:

By contrast, according to the military report, the American and Coalition forces knew little about the insurgency: “Human intelligence is poor or lacking . . . due to the dearth of competence and expertise. . . . The intelligence effort is not coördinated since either too many groups are involved in gathering intelligence or the final product does not get to the troops in the field in a timely manner.” The success of the war was at risk; something had to be done to change the dynamic.
The solution, endorsed by Rumsfeld and carried out by Stephen Cambone, was to get tough with those Iraqis in the Army prison system who were suspected of being insurgents. A key player was Major General Geoffrey Miller, the commander of the detention and interrogation center at Guantánamo, who had been summoned to Baghdad in late August to review prison interrogation procedures. The internal Army report on the abuse charges, written by Major General Antonio Taguba in February, revealed that Miller urged that the commanders in Baghdad change policy and place military intelligence in charge of the prison. The report quoted Miller as recommending that “detention operations must act as an enabler for interrogation.”
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