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Nudity was interrogation method at Abu Ghraib: witness
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The Hindustan Times
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August 23, 2007
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Washington, Aug. 23 -- Stripping Iraqi detainees was an official interrogation technique at Abu Ghraib prison in late 2003, a witness has said at the trial of the most senior US soldier charged with inmate abuse at the site.
Army Staff Sergeant James Beachner Wednesday did not make clear how far up the chain of command the approval went. But another witness said the wing of Abu Ghraib where notorious abuses happened had been turned over to military interrogators by the former US-led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) set up to run Iraq after the 2003 invasion.
The testimony came at the court-martial of US Army Lieutenant Colonel Steven Jordan, 51, who formally headed Abu Ghraib's ...
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