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Article: REP. MEEHAN ISSUES STATEMENT ON NEW ARMY FIELD MANUAL

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September 6, 2006
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Rep. Marty Meehan, D-Mass. (5th CD), issued the following statement:

Rep. Marty Meehan (D-MA) a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee today released the following statement on the Pentagon's release of the new Army Field Manual. Meehan previously wrote to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on June 8, 2006, to express his concern about preliminary reports that the new Army Field Manual would ignore the ban on torture of detainees in U.S. custody as outlined by Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions.

"The new Army Field Manual released today by the Pentagon is a step in the right direction toward granting basic human rights to detainees in the custody of the U.S. government. The ...

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