Geneva Conventions

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These are the next names coming in the Gitmoizing of Iraqi prisons.
Brig. Gen. Barbara Fast, General Sanchez's top deputy for intelligence,
Col. Thomas M. Pappas, who commanded the 205th Intelligence Brigade,
Lt. Col. Steven Jordan, director of the Joint Interrogation and Debriefing Center at Abu Ghraib
519th Military Intelligence Battalion, from Fort Bragg, N.C.,
377th Military Police Company, an OH reserve unit from the Cincinnatti OH area
Capt. Carolyn A. Wood, who had led an interrogation team at the Bagram Collection Point where at least two Iraqis are now listed as homicides.

from the NY Times of 29 May 2004
Interrogation experts from the American detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, were sent to Iraq last fall and played a major role in training American military intelligence teams at Abu Ghraib prison there, senior military officials said Friday.

The teams from Guantánamo Bay, which had operated there under directives allowing broad latitude in questioning "enemy combatants," played a central role at Abu Ghraib through December, the officials said, a time when the worst abuses of prisoners were taking place. Prisoners captured in Iraq, unlike those sent from Afghanistan to Guantánamo, were to be protected by the Geneva Conventions.

The teams were sent to Iraq for 90-day tours at the urging of Maj. Gen. Geoffrey D. Miller, then the head of detention operations at Guantánamo. General Miller was sent to Iraq last summer to recommend improvements in the intelligence gathering and detention operations there, a defense official said.

General Fay's report on the intelligence services part in open Geneva Convention violations is due soon - even thought the George Jr administration is trying to get it quashed.