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| | Memo to Army Chief of Staff: Lt. Col. West Wronged |
 | | Alan B. West, who aggressively interrogated an Iraqi detainee so that he could prevent an ambush and save his Soldiers lives, is being charged with aggravated assault by his unit's JAG officer. |
 | | According to published reports, Lt. Col West allowed two of his Soldiers to "physically agress" the prisoner (an act for which they were later fined), and then West brandished his pistol and fired two shots to scare the man into talking. |
 | | Moreover, Lt. Col West's actions came nowhere close to anything that can be called torture. |
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