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Army jailers in Iraq, acting on the CIA’s request, kept dozens of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison and other detention facilities off official rosters to hide them from Red Cross inspectors, two senior Army generals said on Thursday.
The total is far more than previously reported.
An Army inquiry completed last month found eight documented cases of so-called ‘‘ghost detainees’’, but two of the investigating generals said in testimony before two congressional committees that depositions from military personnel who served at the prison indicated that the real total was much higher.
‘‘The number is in the dozens, to perhaps up to 100,’’ General Paul J. Kern, the senior officer who oversaw the Army inquiry, told the Senate Armed Services Committee. Another investigator, Major General George R. Fay, put the figure at ‘‘two dozen or so’’, but neither could give a precise number. —(NYT)
