US senators to probe discrepancies in General Millers Abu Ghraib testimony

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WASHINGTON, Feb 7 (Reuters) - A Senate committee will look into in accounts of how dogs came to be used to abuse detainees at a U.S. prison in Iraq, after a general who testified to the committee then declined to testify in military court, senators said on Tuesday.

U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, a key player in the treatment of detainees in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, last month invoked his right not to incriminate himself in the cases of two soldiers charged with using dogs to abuse detainees at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad.

Sen. Lindsey Graham said Miller told the Senate Armed Services Committee he discussed the use of dogs for perimeter security. But by another account, Graham said Miller told Army Col. Thomas Pappas, former top military intelligence officer at Abu Ghraib, how dogs could be used to get information from detainees.

"Shame on us if we allow a story to go forward that is not true and the two dog handlers are paying the price," said Graham, a South Carolina Republican.