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Saturday, June 12, 2004
SATURDAY'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS
The New York Times: Bosnian Serbs Admit Responsibility for the Massacre of 7,000, Army Policy Bars Interrogations by Private Contractors, U.S. Investigating G.I.'s Killing of Iraqi ("The incident unfolded because someone had told the military that the Iraqi man was bragging to his neighbors that he had killed a soldier of the First Cavalry Division, according to a written statement. Soldiers then raided the man's home in the neighborhood of Kamalaya in Baghdad. "It is reported that during the raid, the Iraqi attempted to grab the weapon of a U.S. soldier, who shot and killed the subject," the statement said, adding that "the details surrounding the shooting are under investigation.").
The Washington Post: General Granted Latitude At Prison ("Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the senior U.S. military officer in Iraq, borrowed heavily from a list of high-pressure interrogation tactics used at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and approved letting senior officials at a Baghdad jail use military dogs, temperature extremes, reversed sleep patterns, sensory deprivation, and diets of bread and water on detainees whenever they wished, according to newly obtained documents."), Bosnian Serbs Admit to Massacre, Marine Sergeant to Face Court-Martial in Abuse ("Sgt. Matthew K. Travis, of Paducah, Ky., is the highest-ranking of four Marines who have been charged in the April 13 incident. Two privates pleaded guilty last month to abusing the prisoner and were given prison sentences and bad-conduct discharges. A third private faces a court-martial in late July. At a military hearing Tuesday in western Iraq, Travis was scheduled to face a general court-martial from July 24 to 28. He was charged in May with conspiracy to commit cruelty and maltreatment, conspiracy to commit assault, dereliction of duty, attempted cruelty and maltreatment, making a false official statement, assault consummated by a battery, attempted assault consummated by a battery and disobeying a lawful order.").
The Washington Post: General Granted Latitude At Prison ("Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the senior U.S. military officer in Iraq, borrowed heavily from a list of high-pressure interrogation tactics used at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and approved letting senior officials at a Baghdad jail use military dogs, temperature extremes, reversed sleep patterns, sensory deprivation, and diets of bread and water on detainees whenever they wished, according to newly obtained documents."), Bosnian Serbs Admit to Massacre, Marine Sergeant to Face Court-Martial in Abuse ("Sgt. Matthew K. Travis, of Paducah, Ky., is the highest-ranking of four Marines who have been charged in the April 13 incident. Two privates pleaded guilty last month to abusing the prisoner and were given prison sentences and bad-conduct discharges. A third private faces a court-martial in late July. At a military hearing Tuesday in western Iraq, Travis was scheduled to face a general court-martial from July 24 to 28. He was charged in May with conspiracy to commit cruelty and maltreatment, conspiracy to commit assault, dereliction of duty, attempted cruelty and maltreatment, making a false official statement, assault consummated by a battery, attempted assault consummated by a battery and disobeying a lawful order.").
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