The document is a news article written by NBC News Correspondent Campbell Brown regarding possible prisoner abuse at Battlefield Interrogation Facilities operated by Delta Force in Iraq.
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New Iraqi prisortscandal?
May 20 NBC NewS.fiaseXclusive information on what cOuld.be:anoth6rprison
scandal in Iraq. NBC's 'Campbell .Brown has the.details.
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Updated: 8:10`p.m. ET May 20, 2004
BAGHDAD - With attention focused on the seven soldiers charged
with abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison, U.S. military and intelligenceofficials
familiar with the situation tell NBC News the Army's elite
Delta Force is now the subject of a Pentagon inspector general
, investigation into abuse against detainees. ,
The target is a top-secret site near Baghdad's airport. The
battlefield interrogation, facility known as the "BIF" is pictured in,
satellite photos.
According to two top U.S. government, sources, itis the scene of
the most egregious violations of the Geneva Conventions in all of
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the so-called non-enemy combatants like al-Qaida suspects, caught
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by the-United States in Afghanistan.
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Geneva Conventions do apply in Iraq.,
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Conventions applied. They have applied every single day from. the
- outset," Rumsfeld has said.
So, does Rumfeld know about the BIF -and what goes onthere?
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Iraq's prisons. A. place where the normal rules of interrogation.
don't apply, Delta Force's BIF only holds Iraqi insurgents and
suspeCted terrorists — but not the most wanted among Saddam's
lieutenants pictured on,the deck.of cards.
These sources say the prisoners there are hooded frofn the
moment they are captured. They are kept in tiny dark cells. And in
the BIF's six interrogation rooms, Delta Force soldier's routinely
. drug prisoners, hold a pr%is oner,under water until he thinks 'he's
drowning, or smother them almost to suffocation.
In Washington Thursday evening, a senior Pentagon 'official denied
allegations of prisoner abuse at Battlefield Interrogation Facilities
operated by Delta •Force, in Iraq. And he said the.-taCtics described
i,n this report are not used in those facilities.' •
All•of those practices.would'be ViolationS'ortiva .
Conventions. The conventions do not' apply to stateless terrorists
Several top U.S. military
-and intelligence sources say
'yes, and that he through
other top Pentagon OfficialS,
qirected the U;S. head .of
.intelligence in Iraq, Gen.
.Barbara Fast, and others to
Digital Globe / Digital Globe bring Some of the' methods
Baghdad airport - used at the BIF to prisons
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like Abu Ghraib, in hopes of
getting better IntelhenCe frdm Iraqi detainees.
The Pentagon's top spokesman in. Iraq says, the military will'not .
comment on the BIF or what goes on there. He was unwilling to
even confirm or deny its existence. Gen. Fast declined our request,
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that has so far yielded charges agai,ritt.only th.e military's lOwest.
ranks.
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