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	COALITION PROVISIONAL AUTHORITY BRIEFING WITH GENERAL JOHN ABIZAID
		SANCHEZ: What I'll add to that is that we had increased just recently, within the last 30 days, our effort at improving the facilities within the country to increase the throughput for both the new Iraqi army and the police forces, and that infrastructure was to be in place in about another 30 days.
		All day today General Sanchez and I have been talking with responsible members of the Iraqi Governing Council, members of various security organizations, and each and every one of them is absolutely committed to a better future for Iraq and for forces that are capable and will defend their new-found freedoms.
		SANCHEZ: And as to our knowing where he is, it would be inappropriate for me to talk about the level of knowledge that we have on his whereabouts at this point.
	www.cpa-iraq.org /transcripts/20040412_abizaid_sanchez.html (4321 words)

	Ricardo Sanchez - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		Sanchez attended the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California and was subsequently assigned to the U.S. Army Armor Center at Fort Knox, Kentucky, where he served as the chief of the analysis branch for the Future Armored Combat System Task Force, the Special Group Study, Armor, and the Armor Investment Strategy Study Group.
		Sanchez served as operations officer and executive officer for the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry, 3rd Armored Division, Gelnhausen, Germany and as deputy operations officer for the 3rd Armored Division, Frankfurt, Germany.
		Ricardo Sanchez responds to a reporter's question during a press conference with Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld on Sept. 6, 2003, in Baghdad, Iraq.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Ricardo_Sanchez (1341 words)

	Military denies report that Sanchez saw abuse \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		Ricardo S. Sanchez and other senior military officers were aware of the abuse at the prison.
		Sanchez stands by his testimony before congressional committees that he was unaware of the abuses until he ordered an investigation into the allegations in January, according to the statement.
		Although Sanchez ordered the investigation in January, the scandal did not break open until late April, when CBS' "60 Minutes II" broadcast photos of American guards abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners who were naked except for hoods covering their heads, including a group stacked in a human pyramid.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/23281 (415 words)

	Iraqi War - Maj. General Ricardo S. Sanchez, of Rio Grande City, Texas, takes command of the U.S. Army's V Corps and ...
		Sanchez remembers how excited he and his brothers and sisters were on the two Thursdays each month when his mother would go to the relief center and draw their food rations.
		Sanchez was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army in 1973.
		Sanchez led three of his companies in a stunning raid on Tallil Airfield in southern Iraq, destroying at least 10 MiG fighter planes on the ground, and earning a Bronze Star with a V for valor.
	www.iraqiwar.com /RicardoSSanchez.htm (727 words)

	Career of General in Charge During Abu Ghraib May End - New York Times
		Ricardo S. Sanchez, the American commander in Iraq during the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, is coming to an end.
		Ricardo S. Sanchez, at Camp Victory in Baghdad in 2004.
		General Sanchez and his deputies consistently maintained that the only practices they authorized for use in Iraq were consistent with the Geneva Conventions, which cover the care and treatment of detainees.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/01/05/international/middleeast/05military.html?ex=1294117200&en=ef620ce2c34c3fa2&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (946 words)

	Sanchez will leave Iraq command soon \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Ricardo S. Sanchez, will leave his command this summer, to be replaced by the Army's second-ranking general, senior Pentagon officials said yesterday.
		Sanchez and Craddock are both three-star officers who would have needed Senate approval for a promotion to the new position in Iraq, and either might have faced a contentious and lengthy confirmation fight.
		Pentagon officials noted that Sanchez had spent more than a year in command in Iraq and that it was natural for him to leave sometime soon after the transfer of sovereignty to an Iraqi government on June 30.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040525/news_1n25sanchez.html (335 words)

	Ricardo S. Sanchez
		Sanchez’s memo, however, drops the list replacing it with a general statement that “anything not approved, you have to ask for,” [Washington Post, 5/21/2004] and adding that the detainees must be treated humanely and that any dogs used during the interrogations must be muzzled.
		Ricardo Sanchez has ordered a criminal investigation “into reported incidents of detainee abuse at a coalition forces detention facility.” It is later learned that the facility in question is Abu Ghraib prison.
		Ricardo Sanchez orders a high level administrative investigation into the 800th Military Police Brigade apart from the criminal investigation that was announced three days earlier (see January 16, 2004).
	www.cooperativeresearch.org /entity.jsp?entity=ricardo_s._sanchez (4485 words)

	Parade, Festivities Mark Soldiers Return to Germany from Iraq
		Sanchez, who commands the Army's 5th Corps and is a former 1st Armored Division commander, said the homecoming ceremony had special significance for him.
		Sanchez called Saddam Hussein's capture "a peak event for us," but added that the soldiers also brought back with them memories of the suffering the Iraqi people had to endure under the deposed dictator.
		Sanchez predicted that thanks to the efforts of all military members serving in Iraq, that country will reintegrate itself into the community of nations as a free and democratic country.
	nyjtimes.com /cover/10-11-04/SoldiersIraq-Germany.htm (1652 words)

	Sanchez: Iraq Opens New Age of Warfare
		Ricardo S. Sanchez said Thursday, echoing the observations of other top generals who spoke at this week’s Land Combat Expo 2004.
		Sanchez cited the changing face of the enemy, the broad and changing range of stability and resistance in different parts of the country, the complexity of working with international forces, and the varying sentiments of the Iraqi people on the presence of U.S. and other foreign troops.
		Sanchez praised coalition troops for being adaptable and doing jobs that were not in their job description as a soldier.
	www.military.com /NewContent/0,13190,SS_100104_New,00.html (719 words)

	War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity
		Ricardo S. Sanchez, the former top commander in Iraq, approved the use in Iraq of some severe interrogation practices intended to be limited to captives held in GuantE1namo Bay, Cuba, and Afghanistan.
		General Sanchez and his aides have previously described the series of orders he issued, although not in as much detail as the latest report, which was released Wednesday with a few classified sections omitted.
		General Sanchez and his deputies have always maintained that the only approaches they authorized for use in Iraq were consistent with the Geneva Conventions, which spell out rules for the treatment of prisoners of war and other combatants.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/news/nyt-8-27-04a.html (1356 words)

	Sanchez Says He Never Failed His Country
		Ricardo S. Sanchez, whose name and military career likely will forever be tied to the American abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, relinquished command of the U.S. Army’s V Corps on Wednesday in a ceremony at Campbell Barracks.
		Sanchez has said nothing to either deflect that criticism or suggest he deserves it.
		In remarks after the ceremony, Sanchez repeatedly refused to respond directly to questions about his career and the role military and political leaders may have played in his leaving the service.
	www.military.com /features/0,15240,112760,00.html?ESRC=armynews.RSS (601 words)

	Abuse Inquiry Heading Higher
		Ricardo Sanchez, seen here in Washington in May, is stepping aside as investigation overseer so he can be questioned by a superior officer.
		Ricardo S. Sanchez, commander of ground forces in Iraq, asked his superior, Gen. John Abizaid, to recuse him as the overseer of the investigation, deputy Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman said.
		Sanchez' opinion" about the performance of brigade commander Janis Karpinski, the one-star general Sanchez blamed for failing to keep prison guards under control.
	www.scvhistory.com /scvhistory/signal/iraq/sg061104c.htm (516 words)

	US General Linked to Abu Ghraib Abuse
		Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, head of coalition forces in Iraq, issued an order last October giving military intelligence control over almost every aspect of prison conditions at Abu Ghraib with the explicit aim of manipulating the detainees' "emotions and weaknesses", it was reported yesterday.
		Ricardo S. Sanchez, commander on the ground in Iraq, testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill about Iraqi prisoner abuse, May 19, 2004.
		Sanchez on Wednesday defended a U.S. army investigation that dismissed allegations by four Iraqis working for Reuters and NBC that American soldiers beat, humiliated and abused them.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines04/0522-04.htm (994 words)

	Hispanic Business - Ricardo S. Sanchez , influential Hispanic for 2003
		Sanchez is the senior U.S. commander in Iraq.
		He is also responsible for coordinating and overseeing security operations, including the raid the led to the death of Odai and Qusai Hussein in July.
		Sanchez received his third general’s star in June.
	www.hispanicbusiness.com /influentials/details.asp?id=699&year=2003 (90 words)

	Just a Bump in the Beltway: Investigating the Investigators (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		Ricardo S. Sanchez, the senior U.S. military officer in Iraq, borrowed...
		Among the tactics apparently dropped were those that would take away prisoners' religious items; control their exposure to light; inflict "pride and ego down," which means attacking detainees' sense of pride or worth; and allow interrogators to pretend falsely to be from a country that deals severely with detainees, according to the documents.
		So General Sanchez took the unusual step of asking to be removed as the reviewing authority for General Fay's report, and requesting that higher-ranking officers be appointed to conduct and review the investigation.
	www.node707.com /archives/001199.shtml (957 words)

	Boots on the Ground (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		Ricardo S. Sanchez (center), acting deputy commanding general, USAREUR, and commander, V Corps, talks to Staff Sgt. Francisco E. Garza, a 7th Army Reserve Command (ARCOM) Soldier, about his recent deployment to Afghanistan.
		Sanchez, who is also the commander of V Corps, said part of his reason for visiting the Army Reserve Soldiers was to ensure that they were being provided the same resources as their active duty counterparts during the redeployment process.
		Sanchez said that they need to ensure that the first priorities that are placed on support to the active component are the same priorities placed on providing exceptional support to Reserve component Soldiers.
	www.armyreserve.army.mil /ARWEB/NEWS/BOOTS/ARTICLES/20060130.htm (885 words)

	Gospel Music -- Ricardo Sanchez -- Entertain Your Belief
		At the age of five Ricardo had already recorded his first record on SOLO Music, and by the age of thirteen Ricardo and his brother and sister traveled the country, performing and watching a hit single top the charts at #3 on local Hispanic radio, KPHX Phoenix (recorded on Vas Records).
		Ricardo has ministered with and before men of God such as musician and pastor Danny Chamber, Integrity Music, recording artist Israel Houghton, Dr. David Younggi Cho at Yoido Full Gospel Church, and Pope John Paul II in St. Louis, Missouri during his 1998 visit.
		Ricardo also founded and directs the Dream School of the Arts, an educational institution teaching art, music, vocational skills, foreign language, and karate to the Scottsdale community.
	www.gospelcity.com /dynamic/artist-articles/artists/220 (455 words)

	Challenge for Bootstrap General Is Winning Over the Wary Iraqis
		Ricardo S.Sanchez is the commander of allied forces in Iraq.
		General Sanchez began life at the bottom of the American pyramid, going to work as a dry cleaner's delivery boy at the age of 6 to augment welfare payments that supported his Mexican-American family in Rio Grande City, Tex., a few miles from the border that his paternal grandfather first crossed in the early 1900's.
		A day spent with General Sanchez on Friday was taken up with a trip to Abu Saida, about 60 miles northwest of Baghdad, to visit 90 men in a tank company of the Fourth Infantry Division that garrisons the town.
	psychoanalystsopposewar.org /resources_files/Challenge_for_Bootstrap_General_Is_Winning_Over_the_Wary_Iraqis.html (2365 words)

	Sanchez on Iraq: LTG Ricardo S. Sanchez, former CJTF commander in Iraq, shares his thoughts about the war, and about ...
		Sanchez on Iraq: LTG Ricardo S. Sanchez, former CJTF commander in Iraq, shares his thoughts about the war, and about what the Army accomplished at home and abroad since March 2003
		The fact that Iraq was able to move forward in terms of its economy, its entire political infrastructure, with the establishment of city councils and national governments--due largely to Soldiers on the ground-is phenomenal, Sanchez said.
		The mission of the force Sanchez commanded was to restore the country's crippled power plants and oil wells, conduct security patrols, distribute information leaflets, and operate Iraqi currency exchange convoys.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0OXU/is_2_60/ai_n14937503 (820 words)

	General Reported Shortages In Iraq (washingtonpost.com)
		Sanchez, who was the senior commander on the ground in Iraq from the summer of 2003 until the summer of 2004, said in his letter that Army units in Iraq were "struggling just to maintain.
		The disclosure of Sanchez's concerns also follows recent comments by former ambassador L. Paul Bremer, Sanchez's civilian counterpart in running the U.S. occupation of Iraq, that he believed more troops were needed in Iraq and had asked the Bush administration to send them.
		Sanchez's letter was sent after the most intense insurgent offensive the U.S.-led occupation force had seen up to that point.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A40321-2004Oct17.html (1098 words)

	Ricardo Sanchez
		Ricardo grew up poor, in a Texas border town.
		He was the first member of his family to graduate from high school, and during his years in school he enrolled in the Army ROTC program.
		And this was after he had approved even harsher interrogation tactics (which were subsequently rescinded), such as: confiscating prisoners' religious items, manipulating their light exposure, and posing as citizens of a country known for inhumane treatment of prisoners (oh, the irony).
	www.nndb.com /people/937/000049790 (321 words)

	Media alert \| August 31, 2004
		Ricardo S. Sanchez, commander of joint U.S. forces in Iraq, in approving a range of aggressive interrogation techniques for use at Abu Ghraib.
		Sanchez outlining plans for more aggressive interrogation techniques — including the use of dogs — itself remains secret.
		This obvious inconsistency confirms the importance of launching a truly independent, broad-based investigation of abuses — one which is able to put together the different pieces of the puzzle, and is not stymied by classification that hides an important part of the story.
	www.humanrightsfirst.org /media/2004_alerts/0831.htm (540 words)

	CNN.com Specials
		Ricardo S. Sanchez assumed command of the Army's V Corps on June 14, 2003.
		Sanchez was commissioned a second lieutenant of armor after graduating from Texas A&I University in 1973.
		Sanchez also has led the 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division and served as an investigator at the U.S. Army Inspector General Agency's office in Washington, D.C. Based: V Corps is based in Germany but Sanchez is currently based in Baghdad.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/commanders/us.command/index.html (1620 words)

	USAREUR Public Affairs News Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		Ricardo S. Sanchez, commander of V Corps' 1st Armored Division, has been nominated for to follow Lt. Gen.
		Last week Sanchez carried the colors of the 1st Armored Division to Southwest Asia, where the division deployed recently in support of the corps' ongoing efforts in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
		Sanchez and Wallace assumed their current positions during the same week in mid-July 2001.
	www.hqusareur.army.mil /htmlinks/Press_Releases/2003/May2003/07May2003-03.htm (126 words)

	The LongBow Papers
		Ricardo S. Sanchez, the former top commander in Iraq, approved the use in Iraq of some severe interrogation practices intended to be limited to captives held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Afghanistan.
		But they were among those previously approved by the Pentagon for use in Afghanistan and Cuba, and were recommended to General Sanchez and his staff in the summer of 2003 in memorandums sent by a team headed by Maj. Gen.
		The passages involving General Sanchez's orders were among several deleted from the version of the report by Maj. Gen.
	josephbosco.com /2004/08/is-general-sanchez-culpable.html (586 words)

	Bush said to plan higher-ranking US commander in Iraq - The Boston Globe
		WASHINGTON -- President Bush plans to appoint a new, higher-ranking military commander for Iraq, capping an overhaul of the command structure that is likely to replace Army Lieutenant General Ricardo S. Sanchez as the top general on the ground there, Pentagon and other administration officials said yesterday.
		Sanchez has been besieged lately by questions about his oversight of detainee operations in Iraq, especially his role in the scandal over the abuse of Iraqi detainees by US soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad.
		For months, senior commanders have said privately that plans envisioned a new role for Sanchez, possibly as head of the US Southern Command, which oversees military operations in South America, the Caribbean, and most of Central America.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/05/25/bush_said_to_plan_higher_ranking_us_commander_in_iraq (423 words)

	US general OK'd pressure tactics - The Boston Globe
		The US policy, details of which have not been previously disclosed, was approved in early September, shortly after an Army general sent from Washington completed his inspection of the Abu Ghraib jail and then returned to brief Pentagon officials on his ideas for using military police there to help implement the new high-pressure methods.
		The high-pressure options that remained included taking someone to a less hospitable site for interrogation; manipulating his or her diet; imposing isolation for more than 30 days; using military dogs to provoke fear; and requiring someone to maintain a "stress position" for as long as 45 minutes.
		They included methods that were close to some of the behavior criticized this March by the Army's own investigator, who said he found evidence of "sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuse" at the prison.
	www.boston.com /news/world/articles/2004/06/12/us_general_okd_pressure_tactics?mode=PF (487 words)

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