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  Muslim American Society
Antonio Taguba testify on abuses of Iraq prisoners with other Defense personnel present, including civilian administration official Under Secretary of Defense Stephen Cambone.
Antonio Taguba testified at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Taguba had submitted his findings to the Pentagon in January, reporting that soldiers photographed naked male and female prisoners, jumped on naked inmates' feet and forced prisoners into sexually explicit positions.
www.masnet.org /news.asp?id=1205   (1147 words)

  
  Antonio Taguba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Major General Antonio M. Taguba (born October 31, 1950), became known worldwide when a classified report he wrote about cases of torture at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq was published in 2004.
Taguba is only the second Filipino American to attain the rank of U.S. Army General.
Colonel Taguba was the commander of the "Warhorse", the 2nd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division from June 1995 until he relinguished command in June 1997.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antonio_Taguba   (544 words)

  
 Lessons learned for MP school   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
There was some disagreement between Taguba and Dr. Stephen Cambone, undersecretary of defense for intelligence who also testified, about exactly who the 320th MP Battalion worked for during the timeframe of the alleged abuse.
Taguba said operational control meant that the MPs’ priority was to work for the MI brigade.
However, Taguba said that he did “believe there was collaboration at the lower levels between interrogators and guards” that led to behavior outside the bounds of international laws and the Geneva Convention.
www.au.af.mil /au/awc/awcgate/army/052704_taguba.htm   (1095 words)

  
 Steven Stephanowicz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the report by Major General Antonio M. Taguba regarding the alleged acts of brutality, abuse, and torture at the Enemy Prisoner of War facility at Abu Ghraib and other Enemy Prisoner of War Camps in Iraq and Afghanistan, Taguba said, "'Specifically I suspect that Col. Thomas M. Pappas, Lt. Col.
Taguba said that Stephanowicz "made a false statement to the investigating team regarding the locations of his interrogations, the activities of his interrogations and his knowledge of abuses.
Taguba said that Stephanowicz "should be given an official reprimand, have [his security clearance] reviewed, and, in the case of Stephanowicz, have his security clearance revoked and his employment as a civilian contractor terminated." [5]
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steven_Stephanowicz   (364 words)

  
 guampdn - www.guampdn.com - Hagatna, GU
Antonio Taguba, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs Reading, Training and Mobilization, was the keynote speaker and named honorary UOG alumnus at last night's award ceremony at the Guam Marriott Resort.
Taguba is the second Filipino-American to rise to the rank of general in the U.S. Army.
Taguba is the second Filipino-American to rise to the rank of general in the Army.
www.guampdn.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051015/NEWS01/510150314/1002   (461 words)

  
 TheSunLink.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Antonio Taguba came to Congress on Tuesday with a background that might seem to foreshadow his rise to global fame as the whistle-blowing officer who bared Iraq prison abuses for all the world to see.
A trim man with a ready grin, Taguba is the son of a World War II prisoner of war forced by the Japanese to join the horrific Bataan Death March in 1942.
Taguba testified that his investigation determined that control of the prison - and thus responsibility for what went on there - had been turned over to military intelligence officers before the worst abuse took place beginning last October.
www.thesunlink.com /shns/story.cfm?pk=IRAQ-TAGUBA-05-11-04&cat=II   (908 words)

  
 Taguba Cites Mismanagement in Iraq Abuse - General - RedOrbit
Antonio Taguba also left open the possibility that members of the Central Intelligence Agency as well as armed forces personnel and civilian contractors were culpable in the abusive treatment of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison.
Taguba testified at the committee's second hearing into abusive treatment of Iraqi prisoners at the hands of American captors, some of whom forced the detainees to assume sexually humiliating positions.
Taguba also told the committee his investigation had not found "any order whatsoever, written or otherwise," that directed the military police to cooperate with intelligence forces at the prison.
www.redorbit.com /news/general/58838/taguba_cites_mismanagement_in_iraq_abuse/index.html   (393 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > In Iraq -- Taguba, unflappable U.S. general who found Iraq abuse
Antonio Taguba was unflappable Tuesday as senators peppered him with questions about his damaging report on the abuse of Iraqi inmates by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad.
Taguba's 53-page secret report, which was leaked to the press, detailed systematic and illegal abuses of detainees, including "sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal" treatment, which he said were a direct result of a failure of leadership and discipline in the U.S. military.
Taguba, 53, is the son of a U.S. Navy sergeant who was captured by the Japanese in 1942 and escaped from the notorious Bataan Death March.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/iraq/20040511-1145-iraq-abuse-taguba.html   (649 words)

  
 Author of abuse report in Iraq pulls no punches | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Taguba went out of his way in 2001 to call attention to what he described as the injustice the Army had accorded his father after a two-decade career that began in the Battle of Bataan in 1942, where he fought alongside U.S. forces.
Taguba was born on Oct. 31, 1950, in Sampaloc, a district of Manila, and is a 1972 ROTC graduate of Idaho State University.
But it was not until 1999, Antonio Taguba said in the 2001 speech, that the Army finally recognized his father with medals, and his mother, Maria, who still lives in Wahiawa, Hawaii, with a ceremony and a letter of appreciation.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040511/news_1n11taguba.html   (1056 words)

  
 CNN.com - Taguba: No direct order given for abuse - May 13, 2004
Antonio Taguba testifies that he believes there was no policy, no order given to military police to committ abuses -- that the problem was confined to a relative few.
Antonio Taguba told the committee he did not find any evidence "written or otherwise" that the military police members involved in the abuse were ordered to soften up prisoners for interrogation.
Taguba said he found "friction" between Karpinski and the military intelligence brigade commander, Col. Thomas Pappas, and was concerned because information about what was going on in the prison had not reached the MP brigade command.
www.cnn.com /2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/11/politics.abuse.main/index.html   (1393 words)

  
 A Proud People in a Land of Opportunity (June 2006) - Library of Congress Information Bulletin
Antonio Taguba, the highest ranking Filipino-American officer in the U.S. Army, says education is the key to success.
Antonio M. Taguba is the son of Tomas Taguba, a former Filipino prisoner of war following the Japanese invasion of the Philippines.
General Taguba was one of 23 Army officers assigned to conduct an internal investigation of the treatment of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib and issue a report in 30 days or less.
www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/0606/taguba.html   (731 words)

  
 Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba - Homecoming Awards - Distinguished Alumnus - Idaho State University Alumni Association
Taguba, a 1972 ISU graduate, is currently the deputy assistant secretary of defense for reserve affairs (readiness, training and mobilization).
Taguba, 54, graduated from ISU with a bachelor’s degree in history and was commissioned as an armor officer by ISU’s Army ROTC military science program in 1972.
On his current assignment, Taguba is the principal staff advisor to the assistant secretary of defense for reserve affairs on matters pertaining to the reserve components’ readiness, training, and mobilization.
www.isu.edu /alumni/HCProfiles/DistAlumProfiles/TagubaAntonio.htm   (445 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Abuse Investigation -- May 11, 2004
Taguba's findings subsequently supported by the unauthorized release of photographs depicting the abuses was summarized in this statement: "Between October and December, 2003, at the Abu Ghraib confinement facility, numerous incidents of sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuses were inflicted on several detainees.
ANTONIO TAGUBA: She is, as best as I understand it, was not frequently present at Abu Ghraib.
ANTONIO TAGUBA: Sir, I did not question the order that was given to Colonel Pappas on the fragmentary order that he received on the 19th of November.
www.pbs.org /search/newshour/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/military/jan-june04/taguba_05-11.html   (1719 words)

  
 'He did what was right' | www.azstarnet.com ®
Antonio Taguba underscore the unwavering seriousness with which he documented abuses by U.S. soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison complex in Iraq.
Taguba was reassigned to Fort McPherson last year as deputy commanding general for support for the 3rd U.S. Army, but he has spent most of his time in Kuwait and Iraq.
Taguba was assigned Jan. 31 to investigate allegations of mistreatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison, near Baghdad.
www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/22257   (600 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Nation / Washington / Taguba: Values helped me note Iraq abuse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The general's father, Tomas Taguba, was in the U.S. Army, and Antonio Taguba and his seven brothers and sisters were reared mostly by their mother and grandmother.
Tomas Taguba was captured by the Japanese during their attack on the Philippines in 1942.
Taguba attended several military-training schools and received master's degrees in public administration, international relations and national security and strategic studies.
www.boston.com /news/nation/washington/articles/2004/05/11/taguba_values_helped_me_note_iraq_abuse?mode=PF   (453 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Taguba Has Filipinos Lauding The Rise of Their Native Son
Taguba's testimony elaborated on his 6,000-page report that revealed a wide range of abuse and humiliation of Iraqi prisoners at the hands of U.S. soldiers and intelligence operatives at Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad.
Taguba's appearance had a special resonance in the Philippines, where many feel a special connection to the United States, their former colonizer.
On Tuesday, Antonio Taguba told the Senate panel that "lack of discipline, no training whatsoever and no supervision" contributed to the abuse and that military police guards should not have been placed under the command of military intelligence.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A31672-2004May16?language=printer   (911 words)

  
 Transcript : Taguba, Cambone on Abu Ghraib Report - by News
TAGUBA: Sir, the scope as I described to you was related to the detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib.
TAGUBA: I disagree with the fact that she was excluded from certain areas of the prison.
TAGUBA: Sir, the evidence that we gathered were training records from the training that they received at the mobilization station and home station, their mission essential task lists that they developed to prepare them for deployment, that sort of thing.
www.antiwar.com /news/?articleid=2550   (16077 words)

  
 Sacramento News and Review November 25, 2004
Ironically, the event in question happened shortly after Taguba became a hero for his investigation into Abu Ghraib, during which he told Congress that a key problem contributing to the scandal was the prison guards’ lack of training.
Two weeks after Taguba’s congressional testimony, the major general was back in Kuwait, where he encountered Guzman’s group, USA Express, which performs Top-40 hits for military soldiers at bases throughout the world.
Taguba declined to comment on the allegations by the Army musicians, and military officials disputed at least some of the allegations made by the group.
www.newsreview.com /sacramento/Content?oid=oid:32474   (1846 words)

  
 Wallet returned after night out   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Antonio M. Taguba presents a challenge coin and thank you note to Robert A. Anderson at Fort Belvoir headquarters Friday.
Taguba gave Anderson a challenge coin, an envelope containing a personal thanks and high praise at the ceremony.
By Sunday morning, Taguba was making plans to call his credit card companies to cancel service and was also to begin the process of gathering all the other documents that were lost.
www.belvoireagle.com /archives/2005/MAR/31MAR/wallet.htm   (459 words)

  
 Leilehua grad wrote Iraq prison abuse report - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
Antonio M. Taguba, the author of a scathing report that detailed the sadistic abuse of inmates at the Army's Abu Gharib prison in Iraq, is a graduate of Leilehua High School.
Taguba, a member of Leilehua's class of 1968, wrote a 53-page report that revealed a wide range of blatant, sometimes sexual abuses against prisoners committed by soldiers with the 372nd Military Police Company and also by members of the American intelligence community.
Antonio Taguba was born Oct. 31, 1950, in Sampaloc, Manila.
the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2004/May/04/ln/ln05a.html   (323 words)

  
 Taguba's testimony - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED - May 12, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Antonio Taguba's carefully documented report on the mistreatment of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison and his congressional testimony yesterday paint a disturbing picture of the performance of the 800th Military Police Brigade there.
What Gen. Taguba did not do — to the consternation of Democrats and many in the establishment media — is to provide any evidence for assertions that Pentagon higher-ups, including Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, were responsible for instituting policies that produced the abuses at Abu Ghraib.
Taguba for evidence linking senior Pentagon officials to the abuse of Iraqis in detention, the general emphasized that the crux of the problem was the disastrous performance of the 800th, commanded by Brig.
www.washtimes.com /op-ed/20040511-084103-8151r.htm   (549 words)

  
 Iraq abuse was 'a failure of leadership' - Taguba - MarketWatch
Taguba dismissed Karpinski's suggestion in media interviews since the scandal broke that she was barred from entering the detention facilities where the abuse took place.
Taguba also said he didn't find any evidence that the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib was the result of a policy decision to seek more information from prisoners.
Taguba said that Pappas was given tactical control over the prison, while Stephen Cambone, the undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, said that Karpinski remained in command.
www.marketwatch.com /News/Story/Story.aspx?guid={B1F88041-FDB6-44E7-A6EA-E22FED2766A8}&print=true&dist=printTop   (538 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
General Taguba making it very clear that although he found no order, no standing policy that any of this behavior was acceptable, time after time it was detailed that this behavior is not acceptable, of course, under standard military procedures.
BLITZER: General Taguba also said this was the work based on all of the work he had done, the investigation that he completed back in January and February, the work of a few soldiers who got carried away for whatever reason.
GEN. ANTONIO TAGUBA, U.S. ARMY: At the end of the day, a few soldiers and civilians conspired to abuse and conduct egregious acts of violence against detainees and other civilians outside the bounds of international law and the Geneva Convention.
www-cgi.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0405/11/nfcnn.00.html   (3234 words)

  
 Antonio Taguba at AllExperts
Major General Antonio M. Taguba (born October 31, 1950), became known worldwide when a classified report he wrote about cases of torture at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq was published in 2004.
Taguba is only the second Filipino American to attain the rank of U.S. Army General.
Colonel Taguba was the commander of the "Warhorse", the 2nd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division from June 1995 until he relinguished command in June 1997.
en.allexperts.com /e/a/an/antonio_taguba.htm   (595 words)

  
 CorpWatch : IRAQ: Lead Investigator Says Abu Ghraib Translator Lacked Training
Antonio M. Taguba says John B. Israel was trying to do the right thing for his adopted homeland when he signed on as a translator for U.S. Army intelligence at Abu Ghraib prison in October 2003.
Taguba said he identified Israel as a culprit "only because he was associated with Stefanowicz.
Born in the Philippines and raised in Hawaii, Taguba is the second-highest ranking Filipino-American in the military.
www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=12151   (906 words)

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