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Abuse of Iraqi prisoners that sparked worldwide condemnation may have been ordered by US military intelligence to extract information from the captives, and was possibly more cruel than officially acknowledged, The New Yorker magazine and Britain’s daily Guardian reported on Saturday.
Seymour Hersh, investigative reporter for The New Yorker, said that Staff Sergeant Ivan Frederick, one of six US military policemen accused of humiliating Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Gharib prison outside Baghdad, wrote home in January that he had “questioned some of the things” he saw inside the prison, but that “the answer I got was, “This is how military intelligence wants it done’.”
According to his letter quoted by Hersh, military intelligence officers had congratulated Frederick and other soldiers on the ”great job” done with prisoners because “they were now getting positive results and information”... MORE
