‘Faulty leadership’ to blame for abuse of Iraqi detainees

THE US Army general who first investigated prisoner abuse in an Iraqi prison told the US Congress yesterday, the mistreatment resulted from faulty leadership, a “lack of discipline, no training whatsoever and no supervision.”

Major General Antonio Taguba also left open the possibility that members of the CIA as well as armed forces personnel and civilian contractors were culpable in the abusive treatment at the Abu Ghraib prison.

"A few soldiers and civilians conspired to abuse and conduct egregious acts of violence against detainees and other civilians outside the bounds of international laws and the Geneva Convention," he told the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington.