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To: Ilaine who wrote (47221)	5/26/2004 10:43:50 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) of 794162

nytimes.com The questioning of hundreds of Iraqi prisoners last fall in the newly established interrogation center at Abu Ghraib prison yielded very little valuable intelligence, according to civilian and military officials... ...Most of the prisoners held in the special cellblock that became the setting for the worst abuses at Abu Ghraib apparently were not linked to the insurgency, they said... ..."Most of our useful intelligence came from battlefield interrogations, and at the battalion, brigade and division-level interrogation facilities," said a senior military intelligence officer who served in Iraq. Once prisoners were sent on to Abu Ghraib, the officer said, "we got very little feedback." One American general who recently returned from Iraq put the concerns of many senior officers about what happened to the detainees this way: "There was a sense when someone was sent down there, they went into a black hole and never came out." These interrogations were not conducted because they were necessary. Torture never yields reliable information. These people weren't torture because they had to know where the ticking bomb is. They were torturing because they enjoyed it.

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