U.S. Names General for Afghan Jail Review

[maddezmom]

16 minutes ago

By STEPHEN GRAHAM, Associated Press Writer

KABUL, Afghanistan - The U.S. military on Saturday named a long-serving brigadier general to carry out a review of its secretive Afghan prisons, while officials in Washington revealed that they were looking into the deaths of two more Afghans.


Brig. Gen. Charles H. Jacoby, deputy operational commander at the U.S. military's main base at Bagram, north of Kabul, will carry out the "top to bottom" review and deliver a report by mid-June, spokesman Lt. Col. Tucker Mansager said.


The commander of the 20,000 U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan (news - web sites), Lt. Gen. David Barno, ordered the review earlier this month in response to the growing scandal about prisoner abuse in both Iraq (news - web sites) and Afghanistan.


Jacoby will visit each of the about 20 American detention centers, including the main jail at Bagram and others at smaller bases around the country "to ensure internationally accepted standards of handling detainees are being met," Mansager said.

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more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=516&ncid=721&e=10&u=/ap/20040522/ap_on_re_as/afghan_prisoner_abuse

Think it's time for some civilian reviews

[Spazito]

1. This tells it all, imo

"to ensure internationally accepted standards of handling detainees are being met,"

They use "internationally accepted standards" instead of saying the Geneva Conventions. This will be another whitewash, 6 or 7 bad apples meme again.

[hedda_foil]

2. Am I reading this correctly?

Brig. Gen. Charles H. Jacoby, deputy operational commander at the U.S. military's main base at Bagram, north of Kabul

The second in command of operations (which would include facilities and prisons with their attendant personnel and operations, I assume) is assigned to investigate what amounts to his own command?

This reeks of intended coverup from the get-go.

[maddezmom]

3. yup, why not some past military Sens or Reps along w/ non-military

Sens and Reps head up the investigation? Would make the report more believable. Bet Gen Zinni would go and check it out.

Gen. Zinni: 'They've Screwed Up'
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=572614&mesg_id=572614

[Spazito]

4. Amazing, isn't it!

They don't even try to pretend anymore that they are going to investigate anything to do with these war crimes. This is a big FU to the world and to the US public, imo.

[maddezmom]

5. next Miller will be incharge of investigating the jails in Iraq & Gitmo

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