Author of Prison Abuse Report to Testify

Lawmakers discuss release of more photos, video

Monday, May 10, 2004

(10:01 PM ET) (02:01 GMT)

By Joe Johns & Steve Turnham

CNN’s Washington Bureau

"The pictures might very well find their way into the public domain."

Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba is the author of the Army report looking at how Iraqi detainees were treated at the Abu Ghraib prison.

Image Credit: DoD & AP

WASHINGTON -- CNN
The author of a 53-page Army report critical of the "sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuse" of some Iraqi prisoners is scheduled to testify before a Senate committee Tuesday.

Meanwhile, top Democrats and Republicans were meeting to discuss whether and how to release to Congress digital video clips and about 100 additional pictures of the abuse at the Abu Ghraib prisoner outside Baghdad, Iraq.

Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba will be the first witness when the Senate Armed Services Committee convenes at 9:30 a.m. An afternoon session is to include testimony from other military officers and will focus on intelligence issues, according to a press release.

The committee, along with its House counterpart, heard testimony last week from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Richard Myers and others.

Taguba concluded that U.S. military police in Iraq inflicted "sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuse" on prisoners in their custody numerous times. Seven soldiers face criminal charges in the case and six others, all officers or noncommissioned officers, have been reprimanded.

Some of those implicated in the case have said they were told to prepare the prisoners for questioning by military intelligence officers at the Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad.

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